@article{08fdd662d192409b9ba1ae9175d52d9e,
title = "Status and practice of therapy goat in the world",
abstract = "Objective: Goat therapy is widely used and recognized for the medical benefits. Design: A clinical study. Materials and Methods: We intercrossed Tokara male goat with Alpine, Saanen, Shiba and Korean goat. At the same time, we have stationed the trained therapy goat under a specialist handler. We investigated changes in the moods when interacting with the therapy goat. Results: Many of the patients had experience interacting with goat and were interested in and favorable toward interacting with the stationed therapy goat. Conclusions: Quality of life of people in the elderly nursing home, elementary and high school and preschool children was improved. The therapy goat indicated an increased mood effect on rehabilitation.",
keywords = "Older people, Preschool child, Rehabilitation, Status and practice, The elderly nursing home, Therapy goat, Tokara goat",
author = "Kohsaku Nitta and Weiping Cheng and Toshihide Harada and Fumiko Ishizaki 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",
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 = "616--619",
journal = "International Medical Journal",
issn = "1341-2051",
publisher = "Japan International Cultural Exchange Foundation",
number = "5",
}