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YATEP - The Impact of Horse Assisted Therapy (HAT) on Treatment Outcomes

NCT01795755 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2020-10-08

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Summary

The objective of the study is to assess the impact of horse assisted therapy (HAT) on:

* Addiction treatment outcomes (its effectiveness as an alternative therapy)
* Addiction treatment dropout \& addiction relapse (its efficacy in preventing dropout).

Hypothesis: HAT will correlate with:

* beneficial treatment outcomes of depression, anxiety, aggression
* with improved self esteem \& motivation
* lower treatment dropout \& addiction relapse.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Mentalization based inpatient treatment.

1-3 month of inpatient treatment

BEHAVIORAL

Horse assisted Therapy (HAT)

A structured program of 12 X 90 minute HAT sessions (horse care, ground and mounted work) conducted by two clinically qualified therapists who are also Level I Riding Instructors.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Swedish-Norwegian Foundation for Equine Research

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • The Research Council of Norway

    collaborator OTHER

  • Oslo University Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Espen KA Arnevik, PhD · Oslo University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Max Age
26 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-31
Primary Completion
2016-06-30
Completion
2016-12-31

Countries

  • Norway

Study Locations

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