TerminatedNot Applicable

The Effects of Animal Assisted Therapy in Outpatient Psychiatry Clinics

Stopped: IRB Concerns

United States7 participantsStarted 2022-07-08

Plain-language summary

This study will examine whether a session of animal-assisted therapy reduces anxiety levels and improves long-term clinical outcomes of outpatient psychiatric patients in regard to their Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7), Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9 - Depression assessment), Three Item Loneliness scale (TIL), and Mean Arterial Blood Pressure.

Who can participate

Age range18 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * Outpatient psychiatric patients of Dr. Matt Kern who meet the criteria to be diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder and/or Generalized Anxiety Disorder via Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and/or General Anxiety Disorder (GAD-7) Exclusion Criteria: * Prior history of animal related trauma * Participants that require psychiatric hospitalization during the experiment will have their information excluded from analysis * Participants who have changes made to any Hypertension / Blood Pressure medications during the experiment will have their Blood Pressure measurements removed from final analysis

What they're measuring

General Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) scores

Timeframe: Month 6

Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) scores

Timeframe: Month 6

Three-Item Loneliness Scale (TIL) scores

Timeframe: Month 6

Trial details

NCT IDNCT05326074

SponsorWake Forest University Health Sciences

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2022-08-11

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