Short-term Effects of Animal-assisted Therapy on the Rehabilitation Process of Brain-injured Patients at REHAB Basel
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 22
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- Social Functioning: Total Social Behavior
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose is to investigate whether animal-assisted therapy has positive biopsychosocial effects on patients with brain injuries. This study investigates the short-term biopsychosocial effects that occur when animals are present during therapy sessions in comparison to therapy sessions without animals, observing a group of 25 patients over 24 therapy sessions. While half of the sessions are held in presence of an animal and half without, they are as comparable as possible with respect to content and setting. In this study, patients who are in a slightly advanced rehabilitation process, assessed via their function profile, are investigated.
详细描述
This study is designed as a controlled cross-over, within-subject trial with repeated measurement. The experimental condition is the standardised therapy session using therapy animals (AAT), while the control condition is the comparable "standard" therapy session without the presence of an animal.
Over a period of six weeks, patients have four standardised therapy sessions per week, that alternate in a way that two sessions in two consecutive weeks are similar except for one is with the presence of animals and one without. In this way, data is collected over 24 therapy sessions (12 experimental, 12 control) for each patient.
Each therapy session lasts 30 minutes with an additional 5 minutes before and 10 minutes after the session for filling in the questionnaires.
The study takes place at REHAB Basel. Animal-assisted therapies will be held at the "Therapie-Tiergarten" at REHAB Basel in the presence of one or more animals that will be selected by the therapist and the patient together and with which the patient has a relationship.
Patients who are willing to join the study will be selected and allocated randomly to start with either the experimental or the control condition.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Crossover
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •patient at REHAB Basel
- •brain-injury
- •willing to participate in animal-assisted therapies
- •physical and psychological resilience and ability to go/be transported outside to the "Therapie-Tiergarten"
- •ability to get in contact with the animal autonomously
排除标准
- •medical contraindications:allergies, phobias, etc.
- •no willingness to participate in animal-assisted therapies
- •patient might present a danger to the animals (aggressive behaviour)
- •patient's medication changes radically during the time of data collection
研究组 & 干预措施
animal assisted therapy
"Standard therapy" that is done in the presence and with integrating an animal.
干预措施: animal assisted therapy (Other)
standard therapy
"Standard therapy" without the presence of an animal.
干预措施: standard therapy (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
Social Functioning: Total Social Behavior
时间窗: 6 weeks
Interaction and communication behavior is assessed via video coding in Noldus Observer. Percentage of all social behaviors are collected and aggregated to one measure, the total social behavior.
次要结局
- Social Functioning: Verbal Communication(6 weeks)
- Social Functioning: Nonverbal Communication(6 weeks)
- Social Functioning: Physical Contact(6 weeks)
- Social Functioning: Attention(6 weeks)
- Negative Emotional Display(6 weeks)
- Neutral Emotional Display(6 weeks)
- Mood 4: Satisfaction Therapist Rating(6 weeks)
- Mood 1: Motivation(6 weeks)
- Positive Emotional Display(6 weeks)
- Mood 2: Bipolar Mood Dimension (Good-bad)(6 weeks)
- Heart Rate(6 weeks)
- Mood 3: Satisfaction Self-assessment(6 weeks)
- Motor Activity(6 weeks)
研究者
Karin Hediger
Dr. phil.
Swiss Tropical & Public Health Institute