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Animal‐Assisted Therapy for Older Adults

2015· other· en· W2346947357 on OpenAlexaff
Javier Virúes‐Ortega, Alison D. Cox

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Encyclopedia of Adulthood and Aging · 2015
Typeother
Languageen
FieldBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
TopicHuman-Animal Interaction Studies
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Manitoba
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAnimal-assisted therapyAnxietyDementiaDepression (economics)Exposure therapyAnimal studiesPsychologyClinical psychologyPopulationPsychological interventionMedicineAnimal welfarePsychiatryPet therapyDiseaseInternal medicine

Abstract

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Animal‐assisted therapy comprises planned human–animal interaction episodes intended to induce a variety of behavioral and physiological responses in various clinical populations and in normal populations with special needs. Companion animals can cause stress‐buffering effects and the enhancement of social functioning in the normal adult population. Also, pets seem to induce gains in social functioning among both cognitively intact and cognitively impaired older adults. Individuals with dementia exposed to animal‐assisted therapy have shown reduced levels of behavioral disturbances. The effect sizes of these outcomes are compatible with clinically significant effects. No clear effects of animal‐assisted therapy have been reported for activities of daily living and cognitive functioning, while effects on anxiety and depression may not be clinically significant. There is preliminary evidence to suggest that guided, short‐term interventions delivered individually could help to maximize the effects of animal‐assisted therapy for older adults.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.131
Threshold uncertainty score0.628

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.013
GPT teacher head0.311
Teacher spread0.298 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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