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Pawsitive Impacts of Therapy Dog Visits

NCT04727749 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 211

Last updated 2021-11-05

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Summary

The goal of this unique 18 month study is to better understand the experiences of pain patients in the Royal University Hospital (RUH) Emergency Department (ED), to create excellence in health care. The purpose is to measure the impact of visiting therapy dogs on reducing ED patient pain.

Conditions

  • Pain
  • Pain, Acute
  • Pain, Chronic
  • Pain, Intractable

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Therapy Dog Team Visit

For the intervention group, patient interacts with the therapy dog, handler shares information about the therapy dog, asks about patient's pets, and offers a trading card of the therapy dog at the conclusion of the visit.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Royal University Hospital Foundation

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Saskatchewan

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Colleen Dell · University of Saskatchewan

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-06-07
Primary Completion
2019-09-20
Completion
2019-09-20

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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Diseases

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