Pet Partners for Promotion of Academic Life Skills
| Status: | Recruiting |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Anxiety |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Psychiatry / Psychology |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 18 - 30 |
| Updated: | 5/23/2018 |
| Start Date: | August 2016 |
| End Date: | December 2018 |
| Contact: | Patricia Pendry, PhD |
| Email: | ppendry@wsu.edu |
| Phone: | 509-335-8365 |
Efficacy of College-Based, Animal-Assisted Stress-Prevention Programs on Human and Animal Participants
The current study utilized a randomized controlled trial, conducted in a real-life setting,
to determine whether, how, under which conditions, and for whom, infusing various levels of
human-animal interaction (HAI) in a 4-week, university-based stress prevention program
provides an effective approach to prevent negative ramifications of university students
stress, promote student executive functioning and learning, while safeguarding animal
welfare. This study will examine effects of sole exposure to evidence-based stress prevention
content, hands-on HAI with registered PET Partner teams, or combinations thereof on students'
moment-to-moment well-being and longer-term functioning in socioemotional, cognitive and
physiological domains.This study will also develop a comprehensive coding system and measure
the dynamic nature of behavior of participants, handlers and animals during university- based
animal assisted activities, as well as the HAI environment. The data and analyses will then
be utilized to inform the development of a quantitative measure to capture of the quality of
human animal interaction in various settings to experimentally determine causal pathways
underlying program effects on humans and animals.
to determine whether, how, under which conditions, and for whom, infusing various levels of
human-animal interaction (HAI) in a 4-week, university-based stress prevention program
provides an effective approach to prevent negative ramifications of university students
stress, promote student executive functioning and learning, while safeguarding animal
welfare. This study will examine effects of sole exposure to evidence-based stress prevention
content, hands-on HAI with registered PET Partner teams, or combinations thereof on students'
moment-to-moment well-being and longer-term functioning in socioemotional, cognitive and
physiological domains.This study will also develop a comprehensive coding system and measure
the dynamic nature of behavior of participants, handlers and animals during university- based
animal assisted activities, as well as the HAI environment. The data and analyses will then
be utilized to inform the development of a quantitative measure to capture of the quality of
human animal interaction in various settings to experimentally determine causal pathways
underlying program effects on humans and animals.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Current enrollment at the campus
Exclusion Criteria:
- Children under 18 years old
- Prior history of animal abuse
- Participation in an an academic stress management workshop within 6 months of study
participation
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