Take a Paws: Fostering Student Wellness with a Therapy Dog Program at Your University Library

Lannon, Amber; Harrison, Pamela

doi:10.1080/15228959.2014.984264

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“…These results are broadly consistent with previous studies that have reported improvements in anxiety, mood, well-being, and perceived stress in college students after a therapy dog intervention [6,17,18,20,21]. Indeed, across our three measures, interacting with the dog appeared to be essential to the positive pre–post shift experienced by the students, with the presence of the handler having either a neutral (well-being and anxiety), or even a detrimental (mood) effect on outcome measures.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

The Effect of Dog-Assisted Intervention on Student Well-Being, Mood, and Anxiety

Grajfoner

Harte

Potter

et al. 2017

IJERPH

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This novel, exploratory study investigated the effect of a short, 20 min, dog-assisted intervention on student well-being, mood, and anxiety. One hundred and thirty-two university students were allocated to either an experimental condition or one of two control conditions. Each participant completed the Warwick–Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMBS), the State Trait Anxiety Scale (STAI), and the UWIST Mood Adjective Checklist (UMACL) both before, and after, the intervention. The participants in the experimental condition interacted with both the dogs and their handlers, whereas the control groups interacted with either the dog only, or the handler only. The analyses revealed a significant difference across conditions for each measure, with those conditions in which a dog was present leading to significant improvements in mood and well-being, as well as a significant reduction in anxiety. Interestingly, the presence of a handler alongside the dog appeared to have a negative, and specific, effect on participant mood, with greater positive shifts in mood being witnessed when participants interacted with the dog alone, than when interacting with both the dog and the handler. These findings show that even a short 20 min session with a therapy dog can be an effective alternative intervention to improve student well-being, anxiety, and mood.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

The Effect of Dog-Assisted Intervention on Student Well-Being, Mood, and Anxiety

Grajfoner

Harte

Potter

et al. 2017

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“…Library outreach takes many forms, though common activities include open houses (Anderson 2012;Cahoy and Bichel 2004;Odom and Strout-Dapaz 2008), stress-relieving events that often feature therapy dogs (Jalongo and McDevitt 2015;Lannon and Harrison 2015), and gaming events (Oravet, 2014;Vanden Elzen & Roush, 2013). Although the library literature is replete Insourcing Library Outreach 3 with case studies sharing success stories for a wide variety of outreach activities, the vast majority of these outreach success stories are focused on library public services.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Insourcing library outreach: Engaging technical services in outreach to student organizations

LeMire

Ballestro²

2019

College & Undergraduate Libraries

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In recent years, library outreach has become an increasingly important aspect of public services work. In order to expand capacity and engage patrons, libraries should consider expanding their library outreach programs to include the efforts and expertise of technical services personnel. In this article, librarians from Texas A&M University will share how public services librarians, cataloging experts, and preservation librarians collaborated to provide support for a student-led textbook lending library for student veterans. Through this collaboration, the library was able to develop new outreach opportunities that highlighted technical services expertise as well as lend support to an important campus effort to improve the affordability of college textbooks for veterans.

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“…Another common method of assessing the impact of outreach events is by surveying outreach event participants, which can be helpful for programmatic improvement, as it provides participants with the opportunity to comment directly on the outreach event (Jalongo & Devitt, 2015;Lannon & Harrison, 2015;Nicholas et al, 2015;Oravet, 2014). Other librarians have implemented regular Plus/Delta meetings where those who staffed the event have an opportunity to reflect on the event and share their ideas for future changes (Otto, Meade, Stafford, & Wahler, 2016).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Sharing the value and impact of outreach: Taking a multifaceted approach to outreach assessment

German

LeMire

2018

The Journal of Academic Librarianship

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Although outreach is a common activity in academic libraries, little has been written about strategies for assessing library outreach efforts. Assessing outreach efforts is important in order to measure the success of the outreach activity, identify areas for iterative improvement, and demonstrate the value of the outreach activity to stakeholders. This article is a case study describing the multifaceted strategies employed to assess a major outreach event, [institution's name]'s annual Open House event. It details demonstrating value and programmatic improvement as the articulated goals for outreach assessment as well as the specific strategies used and the insights gleaned from each assessment strategy.

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Take a Paws: Fostering Student Wellness with a Therapy Dog Program at Your University Library

Cited by 27 publications

References 4 publications

The Effect of Dog-Assisted Intervention on Student Well-Being, Mood, and Anxiety

The Effect of Dog-Assisted Intervention on Student Well-Being, Mood, and Anxiety

Insourcing library outreach: Engaging technical services in outreach to student organizations

Sharing the value and impact of outreach: Taking a multifaceted approach to outreach assessment

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