Impaired Social Functioning Clinical Trial
Official title:
Short-term Effects of Animal-assisted Therapy on the Rehabilitation Process of Brain-injured Patients at REHAB Basel
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.
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.
Participation in the study will be cancelled if a patient wishes to do so or if they choose
to withdraw from the animal-assisted therapy program. Other criteria for withdrawal are if
the patient is harmed by an animal or if the animals are abused by the patient.
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