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Canine Assisted Therapy to Reduce Emergency Care Provider Stress

NCT03628820 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 119

Last updated 2020-02-17

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Summary

The main study hypothesis is that emergency healthcare workers on shift who interact for 5 min with a therapy dog and handler will have lower perceived and manifested stress response compared with use of a time out that includes voluntary use of a coloring mandalas. The work will also address two exploratory hypotheses: The first is that salivary cortisol will correlate significantly with perceived stress and will increase from beginning to end of shift, and that exposure to a therapy dog will blunt this increase. The second exploratory hypothesis states that participants who interact with a therapy dog will display more empathic behaviors.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Dog Therapy

5 minutes spent with therapy dog during shift

BEHAVIORAL

Coloring

5 minutes spend coloring mandalas during shift

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Indiana University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-05-17
Primary Completion
2019-08-09
Completion
2019-08-09

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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