ArticleInnovation in aging2024
A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial to Examine the Impact of a Therapy Dog Intervention on Loneliness in Hospitalized Older Adults.
Article in Innovation in aging, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT05089201 (A Pilot Study to Examine the Impact of a Therapy Dog Intervention on Loneliness and Related Health Outcomes in Vulnerable Populations), which is not on this map. Cited by 6 papers.
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A Pilot Study to Examine the Impact of a Therapy Dog Intervention on Loneliness and Related Health Outcomes in Vulnerable Populations
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Examining the Impact of Therapy Dog Visitation on Mood, Anxiety, and Depression in Patients Hospitalized for the Treatment of Mental Illness.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Guidance for protocol content and reporting of dog-assisted interventions in randomised controlled trials: explanation and elaboration of the SPIRIT 2025 and CONSORT 2025 extensions.BMC medical research methodology · 2026Article
- Human-animal relationships in older persons: from pet companionship to animal-assisted interventions. A position statement.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2026Review
- Animal-assisted support programs for residents in Canadian long-term care homes: a feasibility and acceptability study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial to Examine the Impact of a Therapy Dog Intervention on Depression, Mood, and Anxiety in Hospitalized Older Adults.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A pilot randomized controlled trial to examine the impact of a therapy dog intervention on loneliness in adult patients hospitalized in a psychiatric unit.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
Background and Objectives: Loneliness is linked to significant health threats and is potentially more dangerous than obesity; it affects as many as 29% of noninstitutionalized older adults. Loneliness is exacerbated for those who require inpatient rehabilitation, are displaced from their social networks, spend little time receiving therapy, and are physically inactive and socially isolated. Emerging evidence suggests that companion animals provide a number of health and well-being benefits and that interacting with a trained therapy dog may reduce loneliness. Research Design and Methods: Older adult (59+ years) medical inpatients ( Results: Changes in the UCLA-SF [ Discussion and Implications: These results indicate that AAI was effective for reducing loneliness in hospitalized older adults. Human handler only visits did not result in similar findings, indicating that there is something unique and beneficial about the presence of the dog. Clinical Trial Registration: NCT05089201.
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