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Do Service Dogs for Veterans with PTSD Mount a Cortisol Response in Response to Training?

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العنوان: Do Service Dogs for Veterans with PTSD Mount a Cortisol Response in Response to Training?
المؤلفون: Emmy A. E. van Houtert, Nienke Endenburg, T. Bas Rodenburg, Eric Vermetten
المصدر: Animals, Vol 11, Iss 3, p 650 (2021)
بيانات النشر: MDPI AG, 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: LCC:Veterinary medicine
LCC:Zoology
مصطلحات موضوعية: AAI, PTSD, service dogs, welfare, Veterinary medicine, SF600-1100, Zoology, QL1-991
الوصف: Only a few studies have investigated the welfare of animals participating in animal-assisted interventions (AAIs). Most of these studies focus on dogs in therapeutic settings. There are, however, also dogs—service dogs—that are employed to continuously support a single human. Because the welfare of these service dogs is important for the sustainability of their role, the aim of this study was to investigate their stress response to service dog training sessions. To do this, we took repeated salivary cortisol samples from dogs who participated in a training session (n = 19). Samples were taken just after arrival at the training ground, before training, after training, and after a period of free play. Our results showed that mean cortisol levels in all samples were relatively low (between 1.55 ± 1.10 and 2.73 ± 1.47 nmol/L) compared to similar studies. Analysis further showed that samples taken before and after participation in the training’s session did not differ from one another. Mean cortisol levels in both situations were additionally lower than those upon arrival at the training site and after a period of free play. This led to the conclusion that the dogs in our study did not seem to experience training as stressful.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2076-2615
Relation: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2615/11/3/650; https://doaj.org/toc/2076-2615
DOI: 10.3390/ani11030650
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/78dcbd46400945719bc8028352fa97f9
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.78dcbd46400945719bc8028352fa97f9
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:20762615
DOI:10.3390/ani11030650