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Implementing Affordable Socially Assistive Pet Robots in Care Homes Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stratified Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial and Mixed Methods Study

Implementing Affordable Socially Assistive Pet Robots in Care Homes Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stratified Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial and Mixed Methods Study

Implementing Affordable Socially Assistive Pet Robots in Care Homes Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stratified Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial and Mixed Methods Study

Hannah Bradwell   1 , PhD ;   Katie J Edwards   1 , MSc ;   Rhona Winnington   2 , PhD ;   Serge Thill   3 , PhD ;   Victoria Allgar   1 , PhD ;   Ray B Jones   1 , PhD

1 Centre for Health Technology, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom

2 School of Clinical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

3 Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands

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