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The role of dog therapy in clinical recovery and improving quality of life: a randomized, controlled trial.
- Source :
- BMC Complementary Medicine & Therapies; 6/12/2024, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p1-9, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- Background: Any illness places a significant burden on patients, including deterioration in quality of life. Animal assisted therapy may be helpful in the rehabilitation process and in the treatment of patients to alleviate this phenomenon. Methods: A randomized, controlled research was conducted in 2019 and 2020 in a rehabilitation center in Budapest. In our study, the control and experimental groups received the same therapy, but the rehabilitation treatment of the intervention group was complemented by dog therapy. Patients were evaluated by means of the short form Beck Depression Inventory, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Illness Intrusiveness Ratings Scale, Visual Analog Scale for pain and the WHO-5 Well-being Index. For statistical analysis paired T-test and ANCOVA was performed. Results: 58 participants in both groups took part in the research. Results confirm that both groups showed statistically significant improvement in all outcome measures, except for depression symptoms in dog therapy group. Quality of life of the participants improved significantly, their pain and anxiety levels were significantly reduced, they felt significantly less burdened by the disease in their daily lives. Therapeutic-dog sessions had a large effect on patients' quality of life and anxiety. Conclusions: There is a strong case for animal assisted therapy as a complementary therapy in the rehabilitation program, and it is proposed that consideration should be given to the application of this method on a larger scale within health care. The study was retrospectively registered at ISRCTN Registry (registration number: ISRCTN10208787) on 15/03/2022. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ANXIETY prevention
PET therapy
T-test (Statistics)
STATISTICAL sampling
CLINICAL trials
QUESTIONNAIRES
VISUAL analog scale
DOGS
TREATMENT effectiveness
RANDOMIZED controlled trials
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
ANALYSIS of covariance
DISEASES
LONGITUDINAL method
STATE-Trait Anxiety Inventory
QUALITY of life
CONVALESCENCE
PAIN
ALTERNATIVE medicine
DATA analysis software
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 26627671
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- BMC Complementary Medicine & Therapies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 177878229
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12906-024-04538-7