Canine Assisted Therapy to Reduce Emergency Care Provider Stress
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Stress, Anxiety
In brief
The main study hypothesis is that emergency healthcare workers on shift who interact for 5 min with a therapy dog and handler will have lower perceived and manifested stress response compared with use of a time out that includes voluntary use of a coloring mandalas. The work will also address two exploratory hypotheses: The first is that salivary cortisol will correlate significantly with perceived stress and will increase from beginning to end of shift, and that exposure to a therapy dog will blunt this increase. The second exploratory hypothesis states that participants who interact with a therapy dog will display more empathic behaviors.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT03628820
- Run by
- Indiana University
- People needed
- 119
- Starts
- 2018-05-17
- Expected to finish
- 2019-08-09
- Last updated by the study team
- 2020-02-17
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Inclusion criteria require that participants work full time as either a nurse or physician in the Eskenazi emergency department and are willing to consent to participation.
- Participants will include residents, faculty and nurses who work in the emergency department
You may not qualify if…
- Exclusions include any reported prior fear or adverse reaction to dogs
Where it is running
- Indiana University — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
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