150
Participants
Start Date
May 31, 2012
Primary Completion Date
August 31, 2014
Study Completion Date
June 30, 2015
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.
Macomb County Juvenile Justice Center, Mount Clemens
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
NIH
Wayne State University
OTHER