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- Clinical Trial NCT05840198
LH Canine Therapy Study
Evaluating the Impact of a Canine-assisted Therapy Program in Youth Residing in a Residential Treatment Center.
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
The study uses a longitudinal, within-person design with two parallel conditions. In one condition, youth receive a 6-week canine therapy intervention. The other condition consists of treatment as usual. The subject population are youth that are in a full-time residential treatment facility in Lawrence Hall. All studies activities take place in Lawrence Hall. Please note that per Lawrence Hall policy, youth are selected by Lawrence Hall staff to participate in the Recovery & Care Canine-Assisted Therapy program while in residence. A group of closely-matched youth will also be selected by Lawrence Hall staff to serve as the waitlist control (treatment-as-usual) group.
The Recovery & Care Canine-Assisted Therapy intervention is a 1.25 hour structured curriculum that will occur weekly across a period of 6 weeks. The program will be delivered by the Canine Therapy Corps (CTCorps). Youth will work with CTC-affiliate staff, including trained dog-handler teams, a canine behavior expert, and a clinical supervisor to engage in a series of structured activities progress throughout the intervention. Week 1 is a "meet-and-greet" session where youth are introduced to all dog-handler teams participating in the program and will be asked to select a team to work with for the following sessions. Each youth is assigned their own dog-handler team. Weeks 2 cover activities regarding dog obedience, building from mastering basic commands which the dog already knows (such as "sit," "stay'") to the introduction of "new tricks" that the dog has not yet learned. In Weeks 3, youth will continue to work on mastering the "new tricks" with their dog-handler team and will also begin dog agility training. The agility training session progress in terms of complexity of number and types of obstacles. Week 4 is for proofing all skills (obedience, trick, agility) learned in previous sessions. Week 5 continues proofing all skills and is discussion of the graduation structure and dress rehearsal, and Week 6 is a graduation ceremony where family and friends are invited to observe the progress each youth has made with their dog-handler team. In Weeks 1-5, the goals of each session are outlined at the beginning of the session and brief education is provided regarding the session goals. Weeks 2-5 also include a review of the skills/activities covered in prior weeks. At the end of sessions 1-5, youth are asked to reflect on what they did during the session, including discussion of what they did really well, what they wanted to work on further, and goals for the next session. Research staff will be present during all sessions to record fidelity measures. The Positive and Negative Affect Scale will be administered on-site by research staff at the beginning and end of each intervention session. Change in affect are primary and secondary outcome measures.
Baseline and Follow-up data will be collected up to 1-month before and 1-month after the intervention programs from both the treatment and control groups.
Study Type
Enrollment (Estimated)
Phase
- Not Applicable
Contacts and Locations
Study Contact
- Name: Kristen Jacobson, PhD
- Phone Number: 773-834-0265
- Email: kjacobso@bsd.uchicago.edu
Study Contact Backup
- Name: Jennifer A Ponting
- Phone Number: 773-702-8669
- Email: io-ura@uchicago.edu
Study Locations
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Illinois
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Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60625
- Recruiting
- Lawrence Hall Child & Family Treatment Center
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Contact:
- Sean McGinnis, MSW
- Phone Number: 773-474-0547
- Email: smcginnis@lawrencehall.org
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
- Child
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Youth must be receiving in-patient services at Lawrence Hall
- Youth must provide informed assent.
- Youth must complete at least one of the primary outcomes during the baseline assessment.
- Youth must remain in residential care for the duration of the 6-week intervention.
- Youth assigned to the Recovery & Care intervention group must attend at least one of the 6 sessions.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Severe cognitive, psychiatric, or physical condition or limitation that would prevent participation.
- Severe animal allergy
- Animal phobia
- History of mistreatment of animals.
- WASI scores < 60
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Treatment
- Allocation: Non-Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Experimental: Active intervention
Half of youth will be assigned to the active Recovery & Care Canine-Assisted Therapy intervention arm.
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Active intervention.
An 6-week session of structured, goal-oriented activities where youth focus on mastering dog obedience and dog training skills.
Each session is 1 hour and 15 minutes in length and includes education, review of prior sessions, and specific skill-building activities.
Skill-building activities progress in complexity during the course of the 6-week curriculum.
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Other: Waitlist control
Half of youth will receive treatment as usual.
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Youth in this condition receive treatment as usual from their health care providers
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Emotional Stroop
Time Frame: Up to 1-month post-intervention
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Computer-Assisted task assessing affect regulation
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Up to 1-month post-intervention
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Change in Emotional Stroop
Time Frame: Change from baseline to up to 1-month post-intervention
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Computer-Assisted task assessing affect regulation
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Change from baseline to up to 1-month post-intervention
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Flanker Task
Time Frame: Up to 1-month post-intervention
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Computer-Assisted task assessing attention & inhibitory control
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Up to 1-month post-intervention
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Change in Flanker Task
Time Frame: Change from baseline to up to 1-month post-intervention
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Computer-Assisted task assessing attention & inhibitory control
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Change from baseline to up to 1-month post-intervention
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Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale
Time Frame: Up to 1-month post-intervention
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10-item self-report scale assessing self-esteem.
Higher scores are better outcomes
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Up to 1-month post-intervention
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Change in Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale
Time Frame: Change from baseline to up to 1-month post-intervention
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10-item self-report scale assessing self-esteem.
Higher scores are better outcomes
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Change from baseline to up to 1-month post-intervention
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Change in Negative Affect
Time Frame: Change from the beginning to the end of each of the 6 intervention session
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In addition to overall change in outcomes post intervention, we are also interested in whether each intervention session produces an immediate change in youth emotion.
We will assess negative affect using 5 self-report items on current mood from positive and negative affect scale.
Higher scores are worse outcomes.
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Change from the beginning to the end of each of the 6 intervention session
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Measure Description |
Time Frame |
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Attendance and Attrition
Time Frame: Aggregated across the 6-week intervention program
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Project staff will record the number of absences and drop-outs for youth enrolled in both study intervention conditions.
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Aggregated across the 6-week intervention program
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Change in Positive Affect
Time Frame: Change from the beginning to the end of each of the 6 intervention session.
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In addition to overall change in outcomes post intervention, we are also interested in whether each intervention session produces an immediate change in youth emotion.
We will assess positive affect using 5 self-report items on current mood from positive and negative affect scale.
Higher scores are better outcomes.
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Change from the beginning to the end of each of the 6 intervention session.
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Significant Event Report
Time Frame: Aggregated across the 6-week intervention program
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Mandated reporting of disruptive behaviors (including offenses, aggression, running away, etc.) and disciplinary actions that occur during the course of the youth's placement at Lawrence Hall.
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Aggregated across the 6-week intervention program
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Change in Attitudes towards Pets
Time Frame: Change from baseline to up to 1-month post-intervention
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Pet-Attitudes Survey-Modified (PAS-M) is a validated, reliable 18-item instrument used to assess youth attitudes towards pets.
The PAS-M will be used to determine whether the Recovery & Care intervention improves attitudes towards pets and/or whether the intervention is effective for all youth.
Higher scores indicate a more positive attitude.
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Change from baseline to up to 1-month post-intervention
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Other Study ID Numbers
- IRB22-1104
Drug and device information, study documents
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product
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