The evaluation of a multi-site novel imitation based animal assisted intervention for children with developmental disabilities and their family dog

对发育障碍儿童及其家犬的多点新型模仿动物辅助干预的评估

• 批准号: 10613509
• 负责人: Megan I MacDonald
• 金额: $ 36.07万
• 依托单位: OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10613509
• 关键词: Address; Adherence; Adolescent; Adult; Age; Animal Testing Alternatives; Animals; Area; Behavior; Behavioral; Canis familiaris; Caregivers; Child; Child Welfare; Cues; Development; Developmental Disabilities; Dog family; Educational Intervention; Educational process of instructing; Emotional; Evaluation; Family; Feeling; Fostering; Goals; Health; Hearing; Home; Human; Inequity; Intervention; Joints; Knowledge; Measures; Methodology; Morale; Operant Conditioning; Outcome; Ownership; Parents; Participant; Personal Satisfaction; Physical activity; Population; Protocols documentation; Public Health; Quality of life; Randomized, Controlled Trials; Relaxation; Research; Research Personnel; Research Support; Secure; Services; Siblings; Site; Social Behavior; Social Well-Being; Social support; Supervision; Testing; Therapeutic; Training; Training Programs; Waiting Lists; Walking; Work; active lifestyle; animal-assisted therapy; behavioral response; depressive symptoms; design; disability; early adolescence; exercise intervention; expectation; experience; feasibility testing; improved; innovation; interdisciplinary approach; learned behavior; middle childhood; multidisciplinary; novel; peer; physical inactivity; programs; psychological symptom; skills; social; social skills; verbal

Project Summary/ Abstract This R01 application will provide a multidisciplinary One Health approach to an imitation-based physical activity intervention for adolescents with developmental disabilities and their family dog. The novel inter- vention approach includes the use of the family dog in an established dog training protocol, focused on physical activity and aimed at improving physical activity, quality of life and social wellbeing for children with developmental disabilities. The study team has tested the feasibility of this program and their preliminary findings have revealed phyiscal and social-emotional improvements in children with developmental disabilities following this animal assisted intervention. There has been relativeily limited research focused on the physical activity of adolescents with developmental disabilities and there re- mains a critical need to develop strategies that will encourage an active lifestyle for adolescents with de- velopmental disabilities. Animal assisted therapy has known positive impacts on morale and is also known to reduce depressive psychological symptoms for children and adults. Yet, traditional ‘service dogs’ are prohibitively expensive for many families. Dog ownership alone is known to improve health- related physical activity. Thus, a critical need exists to create physical activity interventions that are easily accessible and provide manageable home-based physical activity adherence, but that are less expensive than traditional service dogs. To achieve these goals the investigators of this project have developed the following specific aims: 1) To evaluate a novel imitation-based dog training program to promote physical activity in children with developmental disabilities; 2) To evaluate the impact of participation in an imitation-based dog-training program on the child’s quality of life, feelings of social wellbeing and the child-dog relationship; 3) To evaluation the human-animal-interaction of the child and the family dog based on participation in the program. The long term goal of this research is to improve the lives of adolescents with developmental disabilities. This research supports the One Health initiative and brings together aspects of improving health related to human and animal development.

项目摘要/摘要 此R01应用程序将提供基于模拟的体检的多学科One Health方法 对发育性残疾青少年及其家庭犬的活动干预。这部小说的主题是 发明方法包括在已建立的犬类训练方案中使用家庭犬，重点是 体育活动，旨在改善儿童的体育活动、生活质量和社会福利 有发育障碍的人。研究小组已经测试了这一计划的可行性和他们的 初步研究结果显示，患有糖尿病的儿童在生理和社交情绪方面都有改善 这种动物辅助干预后的发育障碍。相对有限的是， 研究的重点是发育性残疾青少年的身体活动，以及 迫切需要制定策略，鼓励患有痴呆的青少年积极的生活方式 发育性残疾。动物辅助治疗对士气有积极的影响，也是 已知可减少儿童和成人的抑郁心理症状。然而，传统的服务 对于许多家庭来说，养狗的价格高得令人望而却步。众所周知，养狗本身就能改善健康-- 相关的体力活动。因此，迫切需要创建易于进行的体力活动干预 可访问并提供可管理的居家体育活动依从性，但成本较低 而不是传统的警犬。为了实现这些目标，该项目的研究人员开发了 具体目标如下：1)评估一种新的基于模仿的犬类训练计划，以促进身体健康 发展性残疾儿童的活动；2)评估参与 基于模仿的狗训练计划，关于儿童的生活质量，社会幸福感和 儿童与狗的关系；3)评价儿童与家犬的人与动物的互动 基于对该计划的参与。这项研究的长期目标是改善老年人的生活 有发育障碍的青少年。这项研究支持同一健康倡议，并带来了 共同改善与人类和动物发展有关的健康的各个方面。