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Puppy love in the time of Corona: Dog ownership protects against loneliness for those living alone during the COVID-19 lockdown

open access: yesInternational Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2020
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in many countries enforcing a ‘lockdown’, whereby people are instructed to stay at home. Aim: The aim of this study was to capture the experience of such a lockdown in Australians living alone, with and ...
J. Oliva, K. Johnston
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Human–dog relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic: booming dog adoption during social isolation

open access: yes, 2020
The recent COVID-19 pandemic led to uncertainty and severe health and economic concerns. Previous studies indicated that owning a companion animal, such as a dog or a cat, has benefits for good mental health.
L. Morgan   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A cross-sectional study of factors associated with dog ownership in Tanzania [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Background: Mass vaccination of owned domestic dogs is crucial for the control of rabies in sub-Saharan Africa. Knowledge of the proportion of households which own dogs, and of the factors associated with dog ownership, is important for the planning and ...
M Karen Laurenson   +25 more
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A framework for understanding how activities associated with dog ownership relate to human well-being

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2020
There is notorious inconsistency regarding mental health benefits of dog ownership, partially due to repeated cross-sectional studies comparing dog owners and non-owners, without taking into account the heterogeneity of dog-owner dyads, especially the ...
A. M. Barcelos   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Protocol for a randomised controlled trial evaluating the effectiveness of a CBT-based smartphone application for improving mental health outcomes in adolescents: the MobiliseMe study

open access: yesBMC Psychiatry, 2022
Background Depression is a leading cause of disability in adolescents, however few receive evidence-based treatment. Despite having the potential to overcome barriers to treatment uptake and adherence, there are very few CBT-based smartphone apps for ...
S. H. Li   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dog after dog revisited

open access: yesZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2006
This paper presents a compositional semantic analysis of pluractional adverbial modifiers like 'dog after dog' and 'one dog after the other'. We propose a division of labour according to which much of the semantics is carried by a family of plural operators. The adverbial itself contributes a semantics that we call pseudoreciprocal.  
Beck, Sigrid, Stechow, Arnim von
openaire   +2 more sources

Citizen science as a new tool in dog cognition research [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The work of Á.M. was supported by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA 01 031).Family dogs and dog owners offer a potentially powerful way to conduct citizen science to answer questions about animal behavior that are difficult to answer with more ...
Josep Call   +65 more
core   +1 more source

Identification of Genomic Regions Associated with Phenotypic Variation between Dog Breeds using Selection Mapping [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The extraordinary phenotypic diversity of dog breeds has been sculpted by a unique population history accompanied by selection for novel and desirable traits.
Derrien, Thomas   +253 more
core   +2 more sources

Suicide prevention using self-guided digital interventions: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

open access: yesThe Lancet: Digital Health, 2020
Summary: Background: Digital interventions that deliver psychological self-help provide the opportunity to reach individuals at risk of suicide who do not access traditional health services.
Michelle Torok, PhD   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Junior doctors’ mental health and coronavirus disease safety concerns

open access: yesAustralian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2022
Objective: This article aims to assess whether caring for COVID‐19 patients impacted junior doctors’ COVID‐19‐related anxieties, general anxiety and depression, and the relative impact of depression, general anxiety and specific COVID‐19 anxiety on work ...
Alexandra Bartholomew   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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