PMID: 8596231Apr 3, 1996Paper

The value of service dogs for people with severe ambulatory disabilities. A randomized controlled trial

JAMA : the Journal of the American Medical Association
K Allen, J Blascovich

Abstract

To assess the value of service dogs for people with ambulatory disabilities. Randomized, controlled clinical trial. Environments of study participants. Forty-eight individuals with severe and chronic ambulatory disabilities requiring use of wheelchairs who were recruited from advocacy and support groups for persons with muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis, traumatic brain injury, and spinal cord injury. Participants were matched on age, sex, marital status, race, and the nature and severity of the disability in order to create 24 pairs. Within each pair, participants were randomly assigned to either the experimental group or a wait-list control group. Experimental group members received trained service dogs 1 month after the study began, and subjects in the wait-list control group received dogs in month 13 of the study. Dependent variables evaluated were self-reported assessments of psychological well-being, internal locus of control, community integration, school attendance, part-time work status, self-esteem, marital status, living arrangements, and number of biweekly paid and unpaid assistance hours. Data collection occurred every 6 months over a 2-year period, resulting in five data collection points for all subjects. Si...Continue Reading

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