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ArticleJournal of patient experience2020

Patient Education Tools: Using Pets to Empower Patients' Self-care-A Pilot Study.

Kate Hodgson, Marcia Darling, Alan Monavvari, Douglas Freeman

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Article in Journal of patient experience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Kate HodgsonContinuing Professional Development, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Marcia DarlingMedical Writer, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Alan MonavvariMarkham Stouffville Hospital, Markham, Ontario, Canada.
Douglas FreemanWestern College of Veterinary Medicine, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Six patient education tools were designed to guide patients' self-care by activating pets to positively impact social determinants of health. Distributed to both pet owners and primary health-care providers, each tool addressed a specific area of health and outlined a pet-related activity. Surveys questioned how participants used the tools and their impact on health and health care. Pet owners shared the tools with family and friends. Primary health-care providers used the tools to target specific health concerns. Primary health-care providers reported that working with the tools improved rapport with their patients.

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communicationpatient educationpetsself-caresocial determinants of healthzooeyia

Identifiers

PMID32128378
PMCPMC7036682

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