Dogs understand grief, feel our sadness, help with heart issues, and even protect us from cognitive decline. It is no longer to be proven, the company and affection of our pets is beneficial to our health. And a recent Canadian study has once once more proven it.
At the Royal University Hospital in Canada, researchers have been interested in effects of canine therapy in the emergency department. First, they asked patients in the emergency room waiting room to self-assess their level of anxiety, pain and well-being, as well as recording their heart rate.
And only ten minutes of canine therapy – which consists of an exchange with a dog handler and an affectionate moment with the animal – were enough to appease the patients. At the same time, the researchers submitted the same questionnaire to patients who had not benefited from this therapy. And they found discrepancies with patients who encountered the dog.
The first therapy dogs arrived at the Royal University Hospital in 2016, initially to distract patients from a long wait. As part of this study, a hundred patients were visited by these therapy dogs for an average of ten minutes. They then self-assessed the intensity of their pain, their (…)
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