Assessment of Service and Hearing Dogs
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Impairment
- Sponsor
- Linkoeping University
- Enrollment
- 56
- Primary Endpoint
- Health related quality of life, EQ-5D
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 8 years ago
Overview
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.
Investigators
Martina Lundqvist
Principal Investigator
Linkoeping University
Eligibility Criteria
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
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Health related quality of life, EQ-5D
Time Frame: Tree months follow-up
EQ-5D is a generic quality of life instrument including five dimensions
Total costs
Time Frame: Three months follow-up
Health care costs, cost of informal care, municipal costs
Secondary Outcomes
- 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)