Assessment of Service and Hearing Dogs

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Diabetes; Impairment; Epilepsy
• Interventions: Other: Service dog

• Registration Number: NCT03270592
• Lead Sponsor: Linkoeping University

Brief Summary

For persons with impairments and certain illnesses the use of service dogs may have positive effect. The effects of using these dogs to assist in every day life need to be studied further.The aim of the study was to assess how health care consumption was effected by using certified service dogs and to study the cost-effectiveness of having a certified service dog.

Detailed Description

This is an exploratory before and after study with the aim to study how health care consumption was effected by using certified service dogs and to study the cost-effectiveness of having a certified service dog. Data was collected before the education of the dog started and the follow-up was made three months after completion of the education. Data was collected on Health care consumption and outcomes in terms Health related quality of life and Health outcomes.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-09-17
• Primary Completion: 2014-07-02
• Study Completion: 2014-07-02
• Study First Submitted: 2017-08-31
• Study First Submitted QC: 2017-08-31
• Status Verified: 2017-09
• Study First Posted: 2017-09-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-09-01
• Last Update Posted: 2017-09-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 56

Inclusion Criteria

• Age over 16 years
• Having a regular companion dog
• Being in need of a certified service dog (due to impairment, diabetes, epilepsy and deafness)

Exclusion Criteria

• Psychiatric illness

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Service dogs	Service dog	Single arm study using a before after design where Before represent having a regular companion dog and after represent having a certified service dog

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Total costs	Three months follow-up	Health care costs, cost of informal care, municipal costs
Health related quality of life, EQ-5D	Tree months follow-up	EQ-5D is a generic quality of life instrument including five dimensions

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Cost-effectiveness	Life time perspective	Cost per quality adjusted life years (QALY)
Rosenberg self-esteem scale	Three month follow-up	Rosenberg self-esteem scale measures self esteem with ten questions
WHO-5 wellbeing index	Three months follow-up	WHO-5 wellbeing index is an index measuring wellbeing on five dimensions
EQ-VAS	Three months follow-up	EQ-VAS is a Visual analogue scale ranging from 0 to 100 (perfect Health)
Health related quality of life, RAND-36	Three months follow-up	RAND-36 is a generic quality of life instrument including eight dimensions