Canine-assisted Psychotherapy Motivation Alliance

Официальное название

Effects of the Inclusion of a Dog in Psychotherapy on Children's Alliance and Treatment Motivation

Обзор

The aim of the study is to investigate the needed extent and the way a dog is integrated into psychotherapeutic interventions for them to be motivating and alliance building for children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders aged 9 to 17 years old. Specifically, we want to elaborate if the dog needs to be integrated into the therapy in a form that it is part of the therapeutic context or if the presence of the dog without being part of the therapeutic context per se is beneficial.

Вмешательства

• Поведенческое Standard Psychotherapy
  Participants receive a standard psychotherapy session with no dog being present.
• Поведенческое Canine-assisted psychotherapy with dog actively integrated.
  A dog is present and actively integrated into the therapeutic narrative.
• Поведенческое Canine-assisted psychotherapy with dog passively integrated.
  A dog is present but not actively integrated into the therapeutic narrative.

Первичные конечные точки

• Therapeutic alliance of patients [Срок оценки: 9 weeks]
• Motivation of patients [Срок оценки: 9 weeks]

Вторичные конечные точки (2)

• Treatment satisfaction of patients [Срок оценки: 4 weeks]
• Number of missed sessions [Срок оценки: 5 weeks]

Критерии участия

Inclusion Criteria for children and adolescents: :

• Age between 9 and 17 years
• Children are seeing the therapist for the first time
• Basic knowledge of child and parents in either German or English to be able to fill in questionnaires
• Informed consent given by legal guardian
• Positive or neutral attitude towards dogs

Exclusion Criteria for children and adolescents: :

• acute psychosis; early childhood autism
• diagnosed developmental disorder or intellectual delay; if not diagnosed, exclusion when questionnaires cannot be completed due to development level
• fear of dogs
• allergic reactions to dogs
• reported aggressive behavior towards animals in the past

Inclusion criteria for therapists:

• working with an own therapy dog
• completed therapy training or if not completed far advanced therapy training under supervision
• working with children and adolescents aged 9 to 17 years

Exclusion criteria for therapists:

• not working with an own therapy dog
• no completed or far advanced therapy training
• not working with children and adolescents aged 9 to 17 years

Критерии приведены из реестра в оригинале (на английском). Окончательную оценку соответствия проводит исследовательский центр.

Здоровые добровольцы: Нет

Дизайн исследования

Распределение

Рандомизированное

Модель

Параллельные группы

Маскирование

Простое слепое

Основная цель

Лечение

Центры проведения

Швейцария · 1 центр

• University of Basel — Basel

Публикации

• Arnskotter W, Martin S, Walitza S, Hediger K. Effects of including a dog on treatment motivation and the therapeutic alliance in child and adolescent psychotherapy: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2024 Jan 5;25(1):26. doi: 10.1186/s13063-023-07854-4. PMID 38183121

Идентификаторы

NCT: NCT05384808 · 2022-00304

Первоисточники (государственные реестры)

• ClinicalTrials.gov (NIH, США)

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