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Animal Assisted Therapy is an effort to reduce symptoms of violent behavior in patients with mental disorders

South East Asia Nursing Research, 2023
Violent behavior is a situation in which a person performs an action that can physically harm himself, others, and the environment. The risk of violent behavior is an angry response that is expressed by making threats or injuring oneself or others ...
Tati Nurbiyati, Pawestri Pawestri, Lily Kusuma Dewi, Arum Lia Arivani, Eugene Indira   +4 more
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Recommendations for uniform terminology in animal-assisted services (AAS)

Human-Animal Interactions
Through the years, the range of services involving animals benefiting people, often described as “animal-assisted interventions” (AAIs), has been plagued with confusing and inconsistent taxonomy, terminology, and definitions. This has caused difficulties
Amy Johnson Binder, Nancy Parish-Plass, Meg Kirby, Melissa Winkle, Daniela Plesa Skwerer, Laura Ackerman, Cindy Brosig, Wendy Coombe, Esther Delisle, Marie-Jose Enders-Slegers, Jo-Ann Fowler, Laura Hey, Tiffani Howell, Michael Kaufmann, Mariana Kienast, Miyako Kinoshita, Debbie Ngai, Brigitte Wijnen   +17 more
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Current Standards and Practices Within the Therapy Dog Industry: Results of a Representative Survey of United States Therapy Dog Organizations

Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
Organizations that deliver animal-assisted interventions (AAIs), as well as those that train, evaluate, and register therapy dogs, have proliferated in recent decades in the United States (U.S.).
James A. Serpell, Katherine A. Kruger, Lisa M. Freeman, James A. Griffin, Zenithson Y. Ng   +4 more
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Working like a Dog: Exploring the Role of a Therapy Dog in Clinical Exercise Physiology Practice

Animals, 2022
Therapy animals in clinical settings are purported to reduce patients’ anxiety, decrease agitated behaviour, serve as social mediators, enhance the social atmosphere, and increase patients’ openness towards practitioners.
Melainie Cameron, Emily Hewitt, Elizabeth Hollitt, Jacqueline Wood, Samantha Brown   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effect of Animal Assisted Interventions on Inmates: A Systematic Review

Psikiyatride Güncel Yaklaşımlar, 2022
This study aims to examine animal-assisted interventions used in penitentiary institutions and to examine the effects of these interventions on prisoners.
Zehra Su Topbaş, Nuray Şimşek
doaj   +1 more source

The positive transformation of therapy dog handlers throughout the animal-assisted services: An exploratory qualitative study in Hong Kong

Human-Animal Interactions
Background: Animal-assisted services (AAS) provide promising positive effects on the improvement of the psychosocial well-being of diverse populations who received these services. However, the AAS delivery process is less reported in the literature.
Joe T.K. Ngai, Debbie H.F. Ngai, C.Y. Lee, David H.H. Chan, Jack T.C. Chiu, Paul W.C. Wong   +5 more
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A Review of Studies Conducted with Animal Assisted Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Psikiyatride Güncel Yaklaşımlar, 2021
The aim of this study is to examine the studies’ effects of the practices offered through animal assisted interventions to children with autism spectrum disorder between 2000 and 2019 in terms of demographic, methodological and results variables. In this
Damla Çetin, Selmin Çuhadar
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Association Between Individualized Education for Kidney Replacement Therapy Modality Selection and Peritoneal Dialysis Initiation: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an established home‐based kidney replacement therapy (KRT), but its uptake remains low in Japan. We evaluated whether individualized education in a dedicated outpatient clinic was associated with the initiation of PD.
Yasuko Ito, Ryuichi Yoshimura, Takaki Yamauchi, Yuta Funakoshi, Hirotaka Sonoda, Seiji Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Terawaki, Takafumi Ito   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Post-operative benefits of animal-assisted therapy in pediatric surgery: a randomised study.

PLoS ONE, 2015
BackgroundInterest in animal-assisted therapy has been fuelled by studies supporting the many health benefits. The purpose of this study was to better understand the impact of an animal-assisted therapy program on children response to stress and pain in ...
Valeria Calcaterra, Valeria Calcaterra, Pierangelo Veggiotti, Clara Palestrini, Valentina De Giorgis, Roberto Raschetti, Massimiliano Tumminelli, Simonetta Mencherini, Francesca Papotti, Catherine Klersy, Riccardo Albertini, Selene Ostuni, Gloria Pelizzo   +12 more
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Characteristics of Animal-assisted Interventions in the state of Lower Saxony, Germany, with a focus on hygiene in health care facilities

One Health, 2023
Animal-assisted Interventions (AAIs) are becoming increasingly popular. To date, information on the extent of AAIs in Germany is limited. With a focus on infection control measures in health care facilities (HCFs), two studies were conducted in Lower ...
Sonja Wolken, Johannes Dreesman, Dagmar Rocker, Cornelia Henke-Gendo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source