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  1. The effects of assistance dogs on psychosocial health and ...

    Studies on psychiatric service dogs, emotional support dogs, and pet dogs were excluded. Of 1,830 records screened, 24 articles were identified (12 publications, 12 theses) containing 27 studies (15 cross-sectional, 12 longitudinal). ... were from unpublished theses. Of the 100 null comparisons, 43 (43%) were from published papers and 57 (57% ...

  2. Mobility and medical service dogs: a qualitative analysis of

    Introduction. Service dogs are a potential complementary and integrative assistive aid for individuals with disabilities or chronic conditions. Their roles in society continue to grow as they can be trained to provide assistance, guidance or medical alert and response to individuals with a wide variety of disabilities and conditions [].In the United States, service dogs have been legally ...

  3. Service dogs benefit the well-being of their handlers, research shows

    O'Haire's research group is currently conducting a clinical trial that is studying veterans with and without service dogs over an extended period of time. Writer: Abbey Nickel, 765-496-1325, [email protected]. Source: Maggie O'Haire, 765-494-7472, [email protected]. Note to Journalists: Journalists interested in a copy of the Disability ...

  4. The effects of service dogs on psychosocial health and wellbeing for

    Most published research on the effects of service dogs has featured retrospective designs, which have been valuable to understand long-term impacts of the dog's assistance and companionship. ... 30% via phone, and 5% on paper. Demographic and medical characteristics of the sample are displayed in table 1. A total of 154 individuals ...

  5. A Scoping Review of the Benefits and Challenges of Using Service Dogs

    We followed the scoping review guidelines outlined by Arksey and O'Malley [] to synthesize the empirical literature (e.g., primary studies) on the benefits and challenges of using a service dog for finding and maintaining employment.This type of review is appropriate for mapping the size and scope of research on a topic, synthesizing findings and identifying gaps in the literature [].

  6. The impact of service dogs on children, youth and their families: A

    Introduction. Service dogs (i.e., guide, hearing, mobility assistance dogs) are specially trained to perform tasks that can help with physical and functional tasks that help people to be more independent, and are increasingly being used with children and youth. 1, 2 For example, service dogs can help to open doors, retrieve items, assist with mobility, facilitate psychological adjustment and ...

  7. The effects of service dogs on psychosocial health and ...

    Purpose: To evaluate the effects of service dogs on psychosocial health and indicators of wellbeing among individuals with physical disabilities or chronic conditions.Materials and methods: A total of 154 individuals participated in a cross-sectional survey including 97 placed with a mobility or medical service dog and 57 on the waitlist to receive one.

  8. PDF A Scoping Review of the Benefits and Challenges of Using Service Dogs

    For instance, research shows that service dogs can help people with disabilities to achieve greater inde-pendence in activities of daily living, mobility, socialization, emergency alerts and environmental control [16]. Service ... paper was to conduct a scoping review, which was guided by the following research question: what are the benets ...

  9. The effects of service dogs on psychosocial health and wellbeing for

    Abstract. Purpose: To evaluate the effects of service dogs on psychosocial health and indicators of wellbeing among individuals with physical disabilities or chronic conditions. Materials and methods: A total of 154 individuals participated in a cross-sectional survey including 97 placed with a mobility or medical service dog and 57 on the waitlist to receive one.

  10. The impact of service dogs on children, youth and their families: A

    For children with autism, research has documented a range of benefits of partnering with an assistance dog, and as such, they are a growing type of support which may be encountered in occupational ...

  11. A Qualitative Exploration of the Use of Service Dogs in Veterans with

    Objective This qualitative research was conducted to add to the body of knowledge that supports the benefits of service dogs (SDs), as a tertiary treatment modality, to veterans with post‐traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and/or traumatic brain injury (TBI). Methods This grounded theory research design utilized open‐ended, semi‐structured interviews with veterans (n = 10) who were using ...

  12. A survey of the impact of owning a service dog on quality of life for

    Background Quality of life refers to a person's experienced standard of health, comfort and happiness and is typically measured using subjective self-report scales. Despite increasing scientific interest in the value of dogs to human health and the growing demand for trained service dogs, to date no research has reported how service dogs may affect client perceptions of quality of life ...

  13. The effects of assistance dogs on psychosocial health and wellbeing: A

    Service dogs can assist individuals with physical disabilities (e.g. performing mobility-related tasks such as pulling a wheelchair or retrieving dropped items), individuals with medical conditions (e.g. alerting or responding to medical crises such hypoglycemia or seizures), and individuals with mental health disorders (e.g. psychiatric ...

  14. Service Dogs and People with Physical Disabilities Partnerships: A

    This system-. atic review evaluates the published research that supports the use of service dogs for people with mobility. related physical disabilities. Articles were identi fied by computerized ...

  15. Public Perceptions of Service Dogs, Emotional Support Dogs, and Therapy

    1.1. Definitions of Assistance Animals. The number and types of helping roles fulfilled by assistance animals, most often dogs, have been growing rapidly [].As a result, there is considerable confusion over the meaning of individual terms used to designate the function and role of service animals, assistance animals, therapy animals, and emotional support animals [].

  16. SPECIAL ISSUE PAPER Service Dogs and People with Physical Disabilities

    Fairman and Huebner (2000) found that service dogs reduced paid human assistance by an average of 2 hours per week resulting in a savings of $600 per year. Service dogs may contribute to increasing a sense of indepen-dence and a decrease in reliance on others for people with disabilities.

  17. Service Animals in Health Care Settings

    Over centuries, dogs have assisted people with disability to perform routine daily activities. Formalizing canine assistance began in 1916 when the German Shepherd Dog Society trained dogs to support German veterans blinded during World War I. Responding to requests from blind Americans, in 1929 US dog breeder and philanthropist Dorothy Harrison Eustis founded The Seeing Eye, the first US ...

  18. Multiple Perspectives on Service Animals in Society

    This paper explores alternative strategies for taking service dogs seriously. I argue for multiple analytical perspectives to understand service dog issues (as opposed to overreliance on a single method). Analysts (including journalists, policy-makers, and activists) should reflect on media coverage, socio-economic realities, politics and law,

  19. Science and Research

    For the past 20 years, Canine Companions has been the pioneer in canine research, setting the path and leading the service dog industry to success. Take a peek at what the Canine Companions Science and Research team is studying! Our team of researchers are working to actively support not only the mission of Canine Companions, but also the ...

  20. The study of service dogs for veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress

    They identified the following overall themes: definition of a service dog, lack of consensus regarding PSD development, social/physiological benefits of a service dog, cost and availability barriers, and the welfare of service dogs. With the exception of service dog definition, these themes could also be identified in other reviewed papers.

  21. Research with Service Dogs

    Research with Service Dogs. A revolution in our understanding of dog cognition has occurred in the past decade, but little of this new understanding has been applied to real world problems. Clinical studies show that service and companion dogs can have a significant positive impact on those with physical and mental disabilities. Unfortunately ...

  22. The New Era of Canine Science: Reshaping Our Relationships With Dogs

    Canine science is rapidly maturing into an interdisciplinary and highly impactful field with great potential for both basic and translational research. The articles in this Frontiers Research Topic, Our Canine Connection: The History, Benefits and Future of Human-Dog Interactions, arise from two meetings sponsored by the Wallis Annenberg PetSpace Leadership Institute, which convened experts ...

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  24. Selecting Quality Service Dogs

    Service dogs include dogs for mobility, vision, hearing, developmental disabilities, diabetic alert, seizure alert, and psychiatric support. ... the remaining articles will focus on behavior and temperament characteristics and research in the field of service dog training. ... Paper presented at the Proceedings of the American College of ...

  25. Dogs Supporting Human Health and Well-Being: A Biopsychosocial Approach

    This paper utilizes a longstanding theoretical framework- the biopsychosocial model- to contextualize the existing research on a broad spectrum of settings and populations in which dogs have been included as an adjunct or complementary therapy to improve some aspect of human health and well-being. ... and service dogs, can be associated with ...