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Randomized Control Trial of an Animal-Assisted Intervention With Adjudicated Youth

NCT01594606 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE3 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 150

Last updated 2015-12-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The project involves testing the efficacy of an animal-assisted intervention (AAI). The AAI consists of a 10-week program in which adjudicated adolescents train shelter dogs and will be compared to a dog walking control group matched for educational content and dog contact time. The investigators expect that the AAI will result in improved empathy skills and that dog attachment will explain these findings. The investigators also explore the extent to which the AAI will improve internalizing and externalizing symptoms in these adolescents.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Animal-assisted intervention

The experimental group will receive 10 weeks of classroom training and hands-on experience working with dogs to teach them basic obedience skills. Each participant will work with the same dog each week. The active control group will receive 10 weeks of classroom training and will walk a different dog each week but will not teach obedience skills to the dogs.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

    collaborator NIH

  • Wayne State University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Annmarie Cano, PhD · Wayne State University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
14 Years
Max Age
17 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-05-31
Primary Completion
2014-08-31
Completion
2015-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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