ArticleFrontiers in public health2021
Effects of Humor in Health Communication: Experimental Evidence for Video Sequences Aiming to Increase the Willingness to Donate Organs.
Article in Frontiers in public health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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- Strategies and interventions to promote organ donation and transplantation among university students: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of Entertainment-Education interventions on persuasive health outcomes.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- Impact of integrating body and organ donation education into anatomy teaching on medical students' concepts of respect for life: a mixed-methods cluster randomized trial.BMC medical education · 2026Trial
- Effects of Scalable, Wordless, Short, Animated Storytelling Videos on Flu Vaccine Hesitancy in China: Nationwide, Single-Blind, Parallel-Group, Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Trial
- Effects of scalable, wordless, short, animated storytelling videos on hope in China: a nationwide, single-blind, parallel-group, randomised controlled trial.Journal of global health · 2025Trial
- A qualitative study exploring Malaysian women's preferences for authority or emotional appeals in public health messages promoting breast cancer screening.Scientific reports · 2026Article
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Abstract
Humor has been proven to provide support when dealing with fear-related aspects of life. Therefore, it might be a useful communication strategy for addressing the need for donated organs. We conducted an experimental study among University students in Germany (
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