Assisted Animal Therapy: ReAnimal

NCT ID: NCT03898843

Last Updated: 2023-05-26

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

TERMINATED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

7 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-09-18

Study Completion Date

2022-08-24

Brief Summary

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Assisted animal therapy (AAT) is getting more and more used worldwide, in such areas as gerontology, psychiatry, or oncology. It is a complementary therapy, and benefits for patients are various, including decrease of anxiety. In ICU, some case reports exist, but no study has ever been made in order to prove its benefits, not even its feasibility.

In ReAnimal, the investigator aims to compare a group of patients receiving assisted animal therapy, versus a group of patients not receiving it. Primary objective will be the evolution of anxiety scores between the 2 groups of patients. Secondary objectives will be the comparison of mood scores, post traumatic stress syndrome scores, pain scores, and physiologic parameters such as blood pressure, cardiac frequency. The investigating team will also compare multi drug resistant bacteria incidence between the 2 groups. In the assisted animal therapy group, patients will also be asked to answer a satisfaction questionnaire.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Anxiety Mood Disorders Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

OTHER

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Animal assisted therapy group

Patients included in this arm will have animal assisted therapy session in a specific room outside of the ICU. They will also have blood sampling for multidrug resistant bacteria screening and will answer to questionnaires

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Animal assisted therapy

Intervention Type OTHER

Patients of AAT group will leave their hospital bedroom to go in the session room, where they will meet a dog, who has come with his veterinary student master. Animal assisted therapy session will last at most 20 minutes, in which the patient is going to interact with the dog, pet him, play with him, etc.

Nasal swab sampling

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

All patients will have nasal swab sampling at inclusion and 7 days after AAT session or sham session in order to screen multidrug resistant bacteria

STAI-Y and POMS Questionnaires

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Before and after AAT or sham session, patients will answer State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Y (STAI-Y), Profile of Mood States (POMS) questionnaires.

physiological parameters measure

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Before and after AAT or sham session, blood pressure, heart rate dans respiratory rate will be measured.

Visual Analog Scale (VAS)

Intervention Type OTHER

Before and after AAT or sham session, pain will be evaluated thanks to VAS

Impact of Event Scale - Revised (IES-R)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Patients will answer IES-R questionnaire 3 months after AAT or sham session

satisfaction questionnaire

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Patients of the AAT group will answer satisfaction questionnaire at the end of the AAT session and 3 months after AAT

Rectal swab sampling

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

All patients will have rectal swab sampling at inclusion and 7 days after AAT session or sham session in order to screen multidrug resistant bacteria

Control Group

Patients included in this arm will have a "sham session" : they will leave their hospital bedroom, to go in the AAT session room. There, no specific activity is planned. After 20 minutes, the patient will go back to his room. They will also have blood sampling for multidrug resistant bacteria screening and will answer to questionnaires

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Nasal swab sampling

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

All patients will have nasal swab sampling at inclusion and 7 days after AAT session or sham session in order to screen multidrug resistant bacteria

STAI-Y and POMS Questionnaires

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Before and after AAT or sham session, patients will answer State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Y (STAI-Y), Profile of Mood States (POMS) questionnaires.

physiological parameters measure

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Before and after AAT or sham session, blood pressure, heart rate dans respiratory rate will be measured.

Visual Analog Scale (VAS)

Intervention Type OTHER

Before and after AAT or sham session, pain will be evaluated thanks to VAS

Impact of Event Scale - Revised (IES-R)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Patients will answer IES-R questionnaire 3 months after AAT or sham session

Rectal swab sampling

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

All patients will have rectal swab sampling at inclusion and 7 days after AAT session or sham session in order to screen multidrug resistant bacteria

Interventions

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Animal assisted therapy

Patients of AAT group will leave their hospital bedroom to go in the session room, where they will meet a dog, who has come with his veterinary student master. Animal assisted therapy session will last at most 20 minutes, in which the patient is going to interact with the dog, pet him, play with him, etc.

Intervention Type OTHER

Nasal swab sampling

All patients will have nasal swab sampling at inclusion and 7 days after AAT session or sham session in order to screen multidrug resistant bacteria

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

STAI-Y and POMS Questionnaires

Before and after AAT or sham session, patients will answer State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Y (STAI-Y), Profile of Mood States (POMS) questionnaires.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

physiological parameters measure

Before and after AAT or sham session, blood pressure, heart rate dans respiratory rate will be measured.

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Visual Analog Scale (VAS)

Before and after AAT or sham session, pain will be evaluated thanks to VAS

Intervention Type OTHER

Impact of Event Scale - Revised (IES-R)

Patients will answer IES-R questionnaire 3 months after AAT or sham session

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

satisfaction questionnaire

Patients of the AAT group will answer satisfaction questionnaire at the end of the AAT session and 3 months after AAT

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Rectal swab sampling

All patients will have rectal swab sampling at inclusion and 7 days after AAT session or sham session in order to screen multidrug resistant bacteria

Intervention Type BIOLOGICAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* patients hospitalized in surgical ICU, not in acute stage of their ICU stay
* adult patient
* able to receive information and to give consent,
* with national social insurance

Exclusion Criteria

* afraid of animal, dog phobia
* allergic to dog
* immunodepression (neutrophils \<0.5 G/L), induced by treatment (chemotherapy, immunosuppressing treatment with high doses, corticotherapy for more than 2 weeks) or induced by disease (malignant blood disease, AIDS, transplantation, or splenectomy)
* sepsis ongoing
* patient known for having multidrug resistant bacteria
* wounds, or large bandages that could not correctly be covered, including external fixer
* central venous catheter, arterial catheter
* tracheostomy
* agitation, aggressiveness
* pregnant women
* patient deprived of freedom by juridical or administrative decision
* patient under legal protection measure
* patient receiving enforced psychiatric treatment
* patient admitted in a sanitary or social department.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Hospices Civils de Lyon

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Guillaume PETIT, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Hospices Civils de Lyon

Locations

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HĂ´pital Edouard Herriot - Anesthesiology department

Lyon, , France

Site Status

Countries

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France

Other Identifiers

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2018-A02789-46

Identifier Type: OTHER

Identifier Source: secondary_id

69HCL18_0804

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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