Equine-assisted Intervention on Psychosocial Adjustment in Patients With Psychiatric Disorders (PEGASE)

Centre Hospitalier de Dreux

Status: Completed

Conditions: Equine-assisted Therapy

Treatments: Behavioral: Equine-assisted intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04850066

2018-A00022-53

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of a brief equine-assisted intervention on the social adjustment, assertiveness, self-esteem and coping strategies in adult patients with psychosocial dysfunction, hospitalized and followed in psychiatry, as compared to standard care.

Enrollment: 98 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients hospitalized in psychiatry with mental disorders lasting for more than 6 months with an EGF score on the Global Evaluation of Psychosocial Functioning scale of between 31 and 60 at the time of inclusion.

Exclusion criteria

• acute psychiatric crisis
• severe comorbidities (such as mental retardation, mental deterioration) which could invalidate informed consent or limit patient compliance with the study protocol.
• medical contraindication to equine-assisted therapy (allergy, immunocompromised patients)
• pregnancy
• no affiliation to a social security scheme
• deprivation of liberty by a judicial decision
• wardship
• horse phobia

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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98 participants in 2 patient groups

Equine-assisted intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Brief program (3 sessions)

Treatment:

Behavioral: Equine-assisted intervention

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard care with treatments as usual