Therapy dogs are being used in medical situations because they are effective in reducing patient’s levels of stress, pain, anxiety, and anger while increasing the patient’s feelings of being supported and comforted.
A study by the Indiana University School of Medicine found that therapy dogs even have an effect on the physicians and nurses working in an Emergency Room.
The researchers found that just five minutes of interaction with a therapy dog lowered the docs and nurses stress levels. They compared the dogs to doing art therapy to a control group that did neither. The researchers found that salivary cortisol levels, which is a measure of stress, decreased significantly with the dogs and the art therapy.
In a survey done on what patients and staff think of therapy dogs in the ER, 87.8% of the patients and 92% of the staff approved of therapy dogs.
So…with all the craziness around COVID-19 and working in an ER, therapy dogs may be the best way to keep everyone sane in a crazy situation.
(Reported Healthpets.mercola.com, 6/4/20)
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