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Animal-Assisted Therapy for Hospitalized Heart Failure Patients

ClinicalTrials.gov ID: NCT00391456

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Official title

Use of Animal-Assisted Therapy to Decrease Cardiopulmonary Pressures, Neurohormone Levels, and State Anxiety in Patients Hospitalized With Heart Failure

Brief summary

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Effects of complementary therapies on heart failure, a leading cause of hospitalization, are unknown. Animal-assisted therapy improves physiological and psychosocial variables in healthy and hypertensive subjects. The purpose of this study was to determine whether a 12-minute hospital visit with a therapy dog improves hemodynamics, lowers neurohormone levels, and decreases state anxiety in patients hospitalized with heart failure.

Study identification

NCT ID
NCT00391456
Recruitment status
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Not applicable
Enrollment
76 participants

Conditions and interventions

Conditions

Interventions

Behavioral

Eligibility (public fields only)

Age range
18 Years to 80 Years
Sex
All
Healthy volunteers
Healthy volunteers not accepted

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Study timeline

Start date
Oct 31, 2001
Primary completion
Not listed
Completion
Jun 30, 2004
Last update posted
Jun 2, 2016

2001 – 2004

United States locations

U.S. sites
1
U.S. states
1
U.S. cities
1
Facility City State ZIP Site status
UCLA Medical Center Los Angeles California 90095

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