NCT04038164

Dog-Assisted Therapy for Children and Adolescents With FASD

Dog-Assisted Therapy for Children and Adolescents With FASD: a Randomized Controlled Pilot Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 39 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron Research Institute · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The rationale of the present study was to evaluate the efficacy of DAT in children and adolescents with FASD in relation to its effects on social skills, internalized and externalized symptomatology and on severity of FASD symptoms. This objective was accomplished through a randomized controlled pilot study of DAT for children and adolescents with FASD.

Detailed description

The rationale of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of Dog Assisted Therapy in children and adolescents with FASD. The investigators conducted a randomized, rater-blinded, controlled pilot trial in a cohort of 33 children and adolescents with FASD. Participants were randomly assigned either to DAT group (n=17) or Treatment as Usual (TAU control group) (n=16). The investigators evaluated changes on social skills, internalized and externalized symptomatology and on severity of FASD symptoms at pre-treatment and post-treatment.

Conditions

• FASD

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Dog-Assisted Therapy and pharmacological treatment	The investigators used the CTAC Method (Center of Dog Assisted Therapy) (E Domènec 2012).

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-02
• Primary completion: 2019-04-02
• Completion: 2019-04-02
• First posted: 2019-07-30
• Last updated: 2019-07-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain