Assessment of Service and Hearing Dogs
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 56
- 主要终点
- Health related quality of life, EQ-5D
研究概览
简要总结
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.
详细描述
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.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Na
- 干预模型
- Single Group
- 主要目的
- Supportive Care
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 16 Years 至 —（Child, Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Age over 16 years
- •Having a regular companion dog
- •Being in need of a certified service dog (due to impairment, diabetes, epilepsy and deafness)
排除标准
- •Psychiatric illness
结局指标
主要结局
Health related quality of life, EQ-5D
时间窗: Tree months follow-up
EQ-5D is a generic quality of life instrument including five dimensions
Total costs
时间窗: Three months follow-up
Health care costs, cost of informal care, municipal costs
次要结局
- Cost-effectiveness(Life time perspective)
- Rosenberg self-esteem scale(Three month follow-up)
- EQ-VAS(Three months follow-up)
- WHO-5 wellbeing index(Three months follow-up)
- Health related quality of life, RAND-36(Three months follow-up)
研究者
Martina Lundqvist
Principal Investigator
Linkoeping University