Evidence of Animal-Assisted Therapy in Neurological Diseases in Adults: A Systematic Review

Rodríguez-Martínez, María del Carmen; Maestre, Alba De la Plana; Armenta-Peinado, Juan Antonio; Barbancho, Miguel Ángel; García‐Casares, Natalia

doi:10.3390/ijerph182412882

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“…Ademais, foi notada uma melhora significativa da percepção geral de saúde e da qualidade de vida. Esses resultados foram obtidos por meio da aplicação do teste MSQOL-54 o qual é específico para avaliar qualidade de vida de pacientes com esclerose múltipla 16 .…”

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Animal Assisted Therapy From the Perspective of the Medical Staff and Patients

Salgado¹,

Melo

Nogueira³

et al. 2022

Braz. Jour. Global Health

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OBJECTIVE: This work aims to obtain information on the opinion of health professionals and patients regarding the effects of animal assisted therapy/activity (AAT). METHODS: An opinion poll was conducted with the medical team (consisting of: doctors, nurses, psychologists) and patients (male and female gender over 18 years of age) on the use of animal assisted therapy through application through application of the questionnaire by the Google Forms platform, being applied only once; participants were selected for convenience. RESULTS: According to the groups surveyed 65.62% of participants reported already knowing AAT, being better known in the group of health professionals, among these 6.71% have already participated in some intervention of the type. In terms of risk/benefit to AAT, it gives more benefits than risk according to 75.03% of participants. Regarding species considered viable for the application of this therapy, 92.63%of participants believe that the dog would be the most appropriate animal, followed by the cat (66.84%) and the horse (55.66%). According to health professionals, children (90.5%), followed by elderly (87.1%) and autistic (73.6%) are the groups that benefited the most from AAT. CONCLUSION: Through this study it was possible to see that in the general population, men and women, the knowledge of animal assisted therapy is still little widespread when compared to health professionals. In addition, studies focused on proof of physiological benefits to the patient are still incipient and have limitations on the number of participants and methodology.

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Animal Assisted Therapy From the Perspective of the Medical Staff and Patients

Salgado¹,

Melo

Nogueira³

et al. 2022

Braz. Jour. Global Health

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“…Today, therapy animals are used effectively both in inpatient and outpatient settings [ 2 ]. The presence of a therapy animal is seen by clinicians as an adjuvant therapeutic option, which can greatly assist clinicians or therapists in the biopsychosocial approach to patient management [ 6 – 8 ]. Animal-assisted interventions are development activities that involve working with therapy animals to achieve specific goals (education, treatment, etc.)…”

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The role of dog therapy in clinical recovery and improving quality of life: a randomized, controlled trial

Mittly,

Fáy,

Dankovics

et al. 2024

BMC Complement Med Ther

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Background Any illness places a significant burden on patients, including deterioration in quality of life. Animal assisted therapy may be helpful in the rehabilitation process and in the treatment of patients to alleviate this phenomenon. Methods A randomized, controlled research was conducted in 2019 and 2020 in a rehabilitation center in Budapest. In our study, the control and experimental groups received the same therapy, but the rehabilitation treatment of the intervention group was complemented by dog therapy. Patients were evaluated by means of the short form Beck Depression Inventory, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Illness Intrusiveness Ratings Scale, Visual Analog Scale for pain and the WHO-5 Well-being Index. For statistical analysis paired T-test and ANCOVA was performed. Results 58 participants in both groups took part in the research. Results confirm that both groups showed statistically significant improvement in all outcome measures, except for depression symptoms in dog therapy group. Quality of life of the participants improved significantly, their pain and anxiety levels were significantly reduced, they felt significantly less burdened by the disease in their daily lives. Therapeutic-dog sessions had a large effect on patients’ quality of life and anxiety. Conclusions There is a strong case for animal assisted therapy as a complementary therapy in the rehabilitation program, and it is proposed that consideration should be given to the application of this method on a larger scale within health care. The study was retrospectively registered at ISRCTN Registry (registration number: ISRCTN10208787) on 15/03/2022.

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“…Other therapeutic methods such as animal-assisted therapies Rodríguez-Martínez et al. (2021) and socially assistive robotics (SAR) Puglisi et al.…”

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Energetic optimization of an autonomous mobile socially assistive robot for autism spectrum disorder

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The usage of socially assistive robots for autism therapies has increased in recent years. This novel therapeutic tool allows the specialist to keep track of the improvement in socially assistive tasks for autistic children, who hypothetically prefer object-based over human interactions. These kinds of tools also allow the collection of new information to early diagnose neurodevelopment disabilities. This work presents the integration of an output feedback adaptive controller for trajectory tracking and energetic autonomy of a mobile socially assistive robot for autism spectrum disorder under an event-driven control scheme. The proposed implementation integrates facial expression and emotion recognition algorithms to detect the emotions and identities of users (providing robustness to the algorithm since it automatically generates the missing input parameters, which allows it to complete the recognition) to detonate a set of adequate trajectories. The algorithmic implementation for the proposed socially assistive robot is presented and implemented in the Linux-based Robot Operating System. It is considered that the optimization of energetic consumption of the proposal is the main contribution of this work, as it will allow therapists to extend and adapt sessions with autistic children. The experiment that validates the energetic optimization of the proposed integration of an event-driven control scheme is presented.

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Evidence of Animal-Assisted Therapy in Neurological Diseases in Adults: A Systematic Review

Cited by 17 publications

References 55 publications

Animal Assisted Therapy From the Perspective of the Medical Staff and Patients

Animal Assisted Therapy From the Perspective of the Medical Staff and Patients

The role of dog therapy in clinical recovery and improving quality of life: a randomized, controlled trial

Energetic optimization of an autonomous mobile socially assistive robot for autism spectrum disorder

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