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work_yts2bp6fknfwxibtuclk3kpbeq	Sandra B. Barker	The Effects of Animal-Assisted Therapy on Anxiety Ratings of Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients	1998.0	6	.pdf	application/pdf	3962	346	56	This study examined whether a session of animal-assisted therapy reduced the anxiety levels of hospitalized psychiatric patients and study design was used to compare the effects of a single animal-assisted therapy session with those of a single regularly scheduled therapeutic recreation session. animal-assisted therapy session for patients with psychotic disorders, with reduced state anxiety levels for hospitalized patients with a variety of psychiatric diagnoses, while a routine therapeutic recreation session was associated with reduced levels only for patients with mood disorders. with anxiety reduction and with positive responses from clinical populations, this study investigated the effect of an animal-assisted therapy Mean pretreatment, posttreatment, and change scores on the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for hospitalized psychiatric patients with various diagnoses who participated in an animal-assisted therapy session or therapeutic recreation 230 study participants on the StateTrait Anxiety Inventory before and after attending an animal-assisted therapy group session and a therapeutic	./cache/work_yts2bp6fknfwxibtuclk3kpbeq.pdf	./txt/work_yts2bp6fknfwxibtuclk3kpbeq.txt