Randomized Control Trial of an Animal-Assisted Intervention With Adjudicated Youth

PHASE3CompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

150

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

May 31, 2012

Primary Completion Date

August 31, 2014

Study Completion Date

June 30, 2015

Conditions
Conduct DisorderDepressionAnxiety
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Animal-assisted intervention

The experimental group will receive 10 weeks of classroom training and hands-on experience working with dogs to teach them basic obedience skills. Each participant will work with the same dog each week. The active control group will receive 10 weeks of classroom training and will walk a different dog each week but will not teach obedience skills to the dogs.

Trial Locations (1)

48043

Macomb County Juvenile Justice Center, Mount Clemens

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)

NIH

lead

Wayne State University

OTHER

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