Multi-site Animal Assisted Intervention for Children With DD and Their Family Dog
NCT ID: NCT04799119
Last Updated: 2025-11-18
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Basic Information
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ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
NA
100 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2021-02-04
2026-08-01
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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The investigators propose to address the critical need for empirical evaluation of novel theoretically based multi-site animal assisted interventions through the following specific aims.
Specific Aim 1: To evaluate a novel multi-site DAID dog training intervention to promote physical activity in adolescents with developmental disabilities.
Specific Aim 2: To evaluate the impact of a multi-site DAID intervention on the adolescent's quality of life and feelings of social wellbeing.
Specific Aim 3: To evaluate the impact of a multi-site DAID intervention on the child-dog relationship and mutual wellbeing.
Participant Population: Adolescent participants with a developmental disability, between the ages of 10-17 years will be recruited through community-based programs/organizations associated with children with DDs in around our sites. A DD will be confirmed through parent report (e.g., initial recruitment conversations, and documented through the initial demographic questionnaire).
Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
PARALLEL
TREATMENT
NONE
Study Groups
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DAID dog training
'Do As I Do' (DAID) dog training employs operant conditioning to train dogs to copy the behavior of their owner upon hearing the verbal cue 'Do it', similar to teaching a dog the rules behind the game 'Simon Says'. Once this rule has been established and generalized, something that can be achieved in dogs by practicing with only 3-6 initially learned behaviors, owners can demonstrate new actions and use the cue 'Do it' to prompt a matched, imitative, behavioral response.
Do As I Do (DAID) dog training
Children and their family dog will participate in this dog training program.
Control
No intervention (waitlisted and will be provided with the experimental condition post-study completion).
No interventions assigned to this group
Interventions
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Do As I Do (DAID) dog training
Children and their family dog will participate in this dog training program.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Developmental disability (per parental report)
* Possesses family dog
* Participant can follow basis instructions.
Exclusion Criteria
* Non english-speakers.
10 Years
17 Years
ALL
Yes
Sponsors
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Oregon State University
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Megan MacDonald
Professor
Principal Investigators
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Megan MacDonald
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Oregon State University
Locations
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Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon, United States
Countries
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Other Identifiers
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IRB-2020-0816
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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