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Epidogs International Inventory of Seizure Alert Dogs

NCT03655366 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 227

Last updated 2018-08-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This international research project looks at the reliability of canine seizure alerting behaviour in epilepsy patients. In the first stage an international database to identify the size and composition of the population of seizure alerting dogs has been created.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Questionnaire for Dog owners

Questionnaire directed to epileptic patients, parents of epileptic children and legal representatives of epileptic patients with intellectual disabilities. It includes questions about demographics, epilepsy diagnosis, seizures, the behavior of their dogs around the time they have a seizure and a validates scale to measure dog personality traits.

OTHER

Questionnaire for Dog trainers

Questionnaire for seizure response and seizure alert dog trainers including information on number of active working dogs, dog demographic information and selection criteria, the type of patient inclusion criteria they use, training methods used.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Ghent

    collaborator OTHER

  • University Hospital, Ghent

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Christel Moons, PhD · Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-09-01
Primary Completion
2018-07-01
Completion
2018-07-01

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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Diseases

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