The Evaluation of a Multi-site Imitation Based Animal Assisted Intervention for Children With Developmental Disabilities and Their Family Dog
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 进行中（未招募）
- 入组人数
- 100
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Physical Activity
研究概览
简要总结
The study purpose is to evaluate a novel multidisciplinary approach to fostering a therapeutic partnership between the participants with developmental disabilities and the participants family dog. This will culminate in an Animal Assisted Intervention aimed at increasing activity levels, enhancing social support, and increasing feeling of responsibility and wellbeing within this population.
详细描述
The goal of this proposal is to evaluate a large scale novel multidisciplinary approach to fostering atherapeutic partnership between adolescents with developmental disabilities (DD) and the participants family dog. The investigators will evaluate imitative 'Do As I Do' (DAID) training into a unique Animal Assisted Intervention (AAI) aimed at increasing activity levels, enhancing social support by promoting a stronger dog-human bond, and increasing feelings of responsibility and wellbeing within this population.
The investigators propose to address the critical need for empirical evaluation of novel theoretically based multi-site animal assisted interventions through the following specific aims.
Specific Aim 1: To evaluate a novel multi-site DAID dog training intervention to promote physical activity in adolescents with developmental disabilities.
Specific Aim 2: To evaluate the impact of a multi-site DAID intervention on the adolescent's quality of life and feelings of social wellbeing.
Specific Aim 3: To evaluate the impact of a multi-site DAID intervention on the child-dog relationship and mutual wellbeing.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 10 Years 至 17 Years（Child）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Age 10-17 years
- •Developmental disability (per parental report)
- •Possesses family dog
- •Participant can follow basis instructions.
排除标准
- •Cannot follow basic instructions.
- •Non english-speakers.
研究组 & 干预措施
DAID dog training
'Do As I Do' (DAID) dog training employs operant conditioning to train dogs to copy the behavior of their owner upon hearing the verbal cue 'Do it', similar to teaching a dog the rules behind the game 'Simon Says'. Once this rule has been established and generalized, something that can be achieved in dogs by practicing with only 3-6 initially learned behaviors, owners can demonstrate new actions and use the cue 'Do it' to prompt a matched, imitative, behavioral response.
干预措施: Do As I Do (DAID) dog training (Behavioral)
Control
No intervention (waitlisted and will be provided with the experimental condition post-study completion).
结局指标
主要结局
Physical Activity
时间窗: One year
Physical activity will be measure through accelerometry.
次要结局
- Social well-being(One year)
研究者
Megan MacDonald
Professor
Oregon State University