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Animal-Assisted Activities for Patients with Central Nervous System Disease in Acute Rehabilitation Setting [PDF]

Brain Sciences
Background: Animal-assisted activities (AAA) are participative interventions, designed to lower hospitalization-related stress and anxiety, enhance communicative readiness, improve quality of life and encourage human–animal interaction.
Vittorio Casati, Valentina Re, Paola Bardasi, Andrea Contini, Pilade Cortellazzi, Angelica Gallarati, Emilia Bozzini, Valentina Castignoli, Gianfranco Lamberti, Fabio Razza, Simona Galante, Chiara Frati, Francesca Ronchetti, Monica Morelli, Emanuela Ricci, Gianluca Ciardi   +15 more
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Animal‐assisted therapy, including animal‐assisted activities and resident animals, for improving quality of life in people with stroke [PDF]

Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2019
This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (Intervention). The objectives are as follows:To assess the effects of animal‐assisted therapy for improving quality of life for people with stroke. A secondary objective is to assess outcomes relating to the feasibility and potential barriers of providing animal‐assisted therapy for stroke patients, including ...
Hawkins E, Hawkins R, Dennis M, Williams J, Lawrie S.   +4 more
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Institutionalized elderly and Animal Assisted Activities (AAA)

Revista Ciência em Extensão, 2010
Animal assisted activity (AAA) is useful for socializing people, in psychotherapy, for treating elderly, patients with special needs and for reducing anxiety of many causes.
Valéria Nobre Leal de Souza Oliva, Verônica Batista Albuquerque, Eros Yudji Tanaka Silva, Karina Cristiany Malaquias Yamamoto, Katiane Nunes Costa, Maria Luiza Moreira Silva, Milena Sato Souza, Sandra Maria Herondina Coelho Avila Aguiar   +7 more
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Organization of animal-assisted therapy: From voluntary activities to work of professionals [PDF]

SHS Web of Conferences, 2020
Humankind has always known about the usefulness in integration of animals for the achievement of such routine goals as hunting, household and territory protection, transportation, scouting foreign territories and materials, and overcoming physical ...
Lotko Marika
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Animal-Assisted Activities: Results From a Survey of Top-Ranked Pediatric Oncology Hospitals. [PDF]

J Pediatr Oncol Nurs, 2016
Animal-assisted activities (AAA) are increasingly common, yet little is known about practices in pediatric oncology. To address this gap, we surveyed the top 20 pediatric oncology hospitals in the United States in May and June of 2014. Questionnaires were sent via e-mail and generally returned by e-mail or postal mail.
Chubak J, Hawkes R.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Physiological State of Therapy Dogs during Animal-Assisted Activities in an Outpatient Setting [PDF]

Animals, 2020
Therapy dogs are increasingly being incorporated into numerous clinical settings. However, there are only a handful of studies that have focused on the impact of animal-assisted activity or therapy sessions on the wellbeing of the therapy dogs ...
Stephanie D. Clark, François Martin, Ragen T.S. McGowan, Jessica M. Smidt, Rachel Anderson, Lei Wang, Tricia Turpin, Natalie Langenfeld-McCoy, Brent A. Bauer, Arya B. Mohabbat   +9 more
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Effectiveness of animal-assisted activities and therapies for autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis [PDF]

Frontiers in Veterinary Science
BackgroundGiven the rising interest in complementary therapeutic strategies for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), this research aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the impact of animal-assisted activities and therapies (AAAT) on various ASD ...
Ningkun Xiao, Ningkun Xiao, Vaishnavi Bagayi, Dandan Yang, Xinlin Huang, Lei Zhong, Sergey Kiselev, Mikhail A. Bolkov, Irina A. Tuzankina, Valery A. Chereshnev, Valery A. Chereshnev   +10 more
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Animal Assisted Activities (AAAs) with Dogs in a Dialysis Center in Southern Italy: Evaluation of Serotonin and Oxytocin Values in Involved Patients [PDF]

Biomedicines
Background/Objectives: In the present study, the changes in oxytocin (OXT) and serotonin (5-HT), as hormones involved in social relationships and mood regulation, respectively, were measured in dialysis patients involved in Animal Assisted Activity (AAA)
Antonio Santaniello, Giuseppe Perruolo, Alessia Amato, Susanne Garzillo, Federica Mormone, Cristina Morelli, Pietro Formisano, Mario Sansone, Alessandro Fioretti, Francesco Oriente   +9 more
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Learning With Donkeys – A “More-Than-Human” Approach to Animal-Assisted Activities [PDF]

Society & Animals, 2022
Abstract The last twenty years have seen increased interest in animal-assisted therapy (AAT) and animal-assisted activity (AAA). However, there has been little research exploring these interactions as experienced by the animals themselves. In this paper, we bring a “more-than-human” lens to concepts and practices within AAA/T, synthesizing ideas about ...
Cara Clancy, Fiona Cooke, Richard Gorman
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Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Animal-Assisted Activities in Pediatric Hospitals. [PDF]

J Pediatr Health Care, 2023
Chubak J, Pocobelli G, Ziebell RA, Hawkes RJ, Adler A, Bobb JF, Zerr DM.   +6 more
europepmc   +3 more sources