@article{c48e13604e71466c8f7ca7234a1ffb08,
title = "Relationship between the characteristics of animal-assisted therapy and patients",
abstract = "Objective: Animal-assisted therapy is widely used and recognized for the medical benefits. Design: A clinical study. Materials and Methods: We analyzed companion animal ownership on the physical and psychological health of subjects. At the same time, we have stationed the trained therapy animals under a specialist handler. We investigated changes in the moods when interacting with the companion animals in the long span. Results: Many of the patients had experience interacting with animals and were interested in and favorable toward interacting with the stationed therapy animals. Conclusions: Quality of life (QOL) of patients in the elderly nursing home, elementary and high school and preschool children and stuffs was improved. The therapy animals indicated an increased mood effect on rehabilitation.",
keywords = "Companion animals, Older patients, Preschool child, Rehabilitation, The elderly nursing home, Therapy animals",
author = "Toshihide Harada and Fumiko Ishizaki and Weiping Cheng and Yumiko Nitta and Yumiko Miki and Hideaki Numamoto and Naotaka Yoshikawa and Yoshitaka Nobukuni and Miwa Hayama and Shoji Ito and Hiroyuki Miyazaki and Satomi Aoi and Hiromi Ikeda and Tadayuki Iida and Juko Ando and Masato Kobayashi and Makoto Ito and Yuka Nitta and Tsuneshi Sugawara and Kohji Nakabeppu and Kohsaku Nitta",
note = "Funding Information: We thank all members of department of laboratory, department of university, the elderly nursing home, elementary, high school, preschool and farm for their helping, supporting and suggestion during our research. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Japan Health Sciences University & Japan International Cultural Exchange Foundation.",
year = "2020",
language = "English",
volume = "27",
pages = "620--623",
journal = "International Medical Journal",
issn = "1341-2051",
publisher = "Japan International Cultural Exchange Foundation",
number = "5",
}