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Pet therapy in elderly patients with mental illness
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Background: To evaluate the effects of pet therapy on cognitive function, mood and perceived quality of life on elderly inpatients (mean age 84.7 years; 95.2% women) affected by dementia, depression and psychosis. Methods: Mini‐Mental State Examination (MMSE) and 15‐items Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) were administered to 10 patients (pet group) and 11 controls (control group) together with a self‐perceived quality‐of‐life questionnaire, before and after a pet therapy intervention that lasted 6 weeks. MMSE and GDS mean scores were compared between and within groups by Student's t ‐test. Results: Both the pet group and control group improved on GDS and MMSE. Within the pet group, GDS symptoms decreased by 50% (from 5.9 to 2.7, P = 0.013), whereas mean MMSE score increased by 4.5 ( P = 0.060). The between group comparison showed a positive effect of pet therapy intervention on GDS ( P = 0.070). Most of the participants reported an improvement of their perceived quality of life. Conclusions: Pet therapy is efficient in improving depressive symptoms and cognitive function in residents of long‐term care facilities with mental illness.
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In a study of 25 moderately demented nursing home residents, neither the animal-assisted therapy group nor the control group had significant changes in MMSE or GDS scores after the intervention.
“after the intervention, both groups increased their MMSE and lowered their GDS scores, but the changes in both groups between pre- and postintervention values were not significant.”
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The Results (pp. 125–129) report a statistically significant GDS decrease in the pet group (P = 0.013), contrary to the claim that neither group had a significant change in GDS. The Study population section says 25 people were eligible but only 21 participated; the Results describe a mixed-diagnosis sample, not 25 moderately demented residents. The reported MMSE changes were not statistically significant. (LLM, conf=0.94)
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- Authors
- MORETTI, F., DE RONCHI, D., BERNABEI, V., MARCHETTI, L., FERRARI, B., FORLANI, C., NEGRETTI, F., SACCHETTI, C., & ATTI, A. R.
- Affiliations
- University of Bologna (IT)
- Corresponding author
- MORETTI, Francesca
- Venue
- Psychogeriatrics
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-09-14
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 125-129
- ISSN
- 1346-3500 (ISSN-L)
- 1479-8301
- OpenAlex
- W2135100269
- Cited by
- 207
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 5.30
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Psychogeriatrics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Animal Science and Zoology › Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Keywords
- animal-assisted therapy, hospitalized older adults, dementia, depression, psychosis, cognitive function, mood, quality of life, long-term care residents
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Alzheimer Disease, Animals, Mental Disorders, Cognition Disorders, Depression, Female, Homes for the Aged, Humans, Italy, Male, Mental Status Schedule, Nursing Homes, Psychotic Disorders, Quality of Life, Surveys and Questionnaires, Dementia, Vascular, Animal Assisted Therapy
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