ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2020
Changing Human Behavior to Improve Animal Welfare: A Longitudinal Investigation of Training Laboratory Animal Personnel about Heterospecific Play or "Rat Tickling".
Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Comparing training methods to promote better animal welfare outcomes for animals in the research and teaching industry.Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2026Article
- Addressing cultural and knowledge barriers to enable preclinical sex inclusive research.eLife · 2025Article
- Voluntary Additional Welfare Monitoring of Farm Animals Used in Research: Maximising Benefits Requires Sustained Support.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Benchmarking Enrichment Efforts in the US & Canada Across Species and Enrichment Categories.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2023Article
- Why workshops work: Examining the efficacy of training trainers to train goats.Animal welfare (South Mimms, England) · 2023Article
- Advancing the 3Rs: innovation, implementation, ethics and society.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2023Article
- Using refined methods to pick up mice: A survey benchmarking prevalence & beliefs about tunnel and cup handling.PloS one · 2023Article
- A Cross-sectional Survey on Rodent Environmental Health Monitoring Practices: Benchmarking, Associations, and Barriers.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2023Article
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Abstract
Despite evidence for rat tickling's animal welfare benefits, the technique is rarely implemented in part because of a lack of training. This study's purpose was to determine the efficacy of online-only or online + hands-on training programs on key outcomes for rat tickling in comparison to a waitlist control condition. After completing a baseline survey, laboratory animal personnel currently working with rats in the United States were semi-randomized to receive online-only training (
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