Dogs and Their Owners Have Frequent and Intensive Contact.

ABSTRACT: Contact and interactions between owners and their pets may have beneficial physical and social effects on people, but may also facilitate the transmission of zoonotic agents and resistant bacteria. To estimate the risk of these contacts, more information regarding the frequency and intensity of this physical contact is required. Therefore, an online survey was conducted among pet owners resulting in 701 completed questionnaires. Questions regarding the interactions between dogs and owners were linked with a score from 1 (limited interactions) to 3 (highly intense interactions). After scoring these self-reported interactions, a contact intensity score was calculated for each respondent by summing up the different allocated scores from all questions. This contact intensity score was used to

SUBMITTER: Joosten P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7345801 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature