Effect of an interactive therapeutic robotic animal on engagement, mood states, agitation and psychotropic drug use in people with dementia: a cluster-randomised controlled trial protocol.

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Authors

• Wendy Moyle
  Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Centre for Health Practice Innovation, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• Elizabeth Beattie
  Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• Brian Draper
  School of Psychiatry and Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, University of NSW, Sydney, Australia.
• David Shum
  Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Behavioural Basis of Health, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• Lukman Thalib
  Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait City, Kuwait.
• Cindy Jones
  Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Centre for Health Practice Innovation, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• Siobhan O'Dwyer
  Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Centre for Health Practice Innovation, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Dementia Collaborative Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• Cindy Mervin
  Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Centre for Applied Health Economics, Griffith University, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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