Exploring the benefits of full-time hospital facility dogs working with nurse handlers in a children's hospital.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the benefits of full-time hospital facility dogs (HFDs) working with qualified nurse handlers for inpatients in a pediatric medical facility.

Methods

A questionnaire survey on the evaluation of HFD activities was conducted in a hospital that had introduced HFDs for the first time in Japan and has been using them for 9 years. Of the 626 full-time medical staff, 431 responded, of which 270 who observed HFD activities were included in the analysis. The Questionnaire contained 20 questions, and nine questions were selected for presentation in this paper because they focused on the situations in which HFD activities were thought to have a strong impact on inpatients. A comparison of the respondents' evaluations for each question was made, and differences in t

SUBMITTER: Murata-Kobayashi N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10231821 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature