Animal-Assisted Therapy in the Residential Treatment of Schizophrenia and Addictions

Miguel Monfort Montolio

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diagnosis, Dual (Psychiatry)

Treatments: Other: usual treatment; Behavioral: Animal-assisted therapy (AAT)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05103865

AAT S&A

Details and patient eligibility

About

Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) is a complementary intervention of therapy that has shown positive results in the treatment of various pathologies. This study assesses the viability of the implementation and the efectiveness of an AAT program in patients diagnosed with substance abuse disorder and associated mental disorders (dual pathology).

Full description

Animal assisted therapy (AAT) is a complementary intervention to therapy that presents positive results in the treatment of different pathologies. The study assesses the implementation and effectiveness of a TAA program in patients diagnosed with substance use disorder and schizophrenia spectrum disorder.

Enrollment: 160 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Meeting DSM-5 criteria for substance abuse disorder and the presence of schizophrenia
• Voluntary participant in the study and having signed the informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Patients whose functioning could be altered by factors not specifically related to addictive pathology or mental disorder (severe cognitive impairment, intellectual deficiency or language barrier)
• Animal-specific phobia

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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160 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group (EG)

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Animal-assisted therapy (AAT)

Control group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: usual treatment