Assisted animal therapy (AAT) is getting more and more used worldwide, in such areas as gerontology, psychiatry, or oncology. It is a complementary therapy, and benefits for patients are various, including decrease of anxiety. In ICU, some case reports exist, but no study has ever been made in order to prove its benefits, not even its feasibility. In ReAnimal, the investigator aims to compare a group of patients receiving assisted animal therapy, versus a group of patients not receiving it. Primary objective will be the evolution of anxiety scores between the 2 groups of patients. Secondary objectives will be the comparison of mood scores, post traumatic stress syndrome scores, pain scores, and physiologic parameters such as blood pressure, cardiac frequency. The investigating team will also compare multi drug resistant bacteria incidence between the 2 groups. In the assisted animal therapy group, patients will also be asked to answer a satisfaction questionnaire.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
7
Patients of AAT group will leave their hospital bedroom to go in the session room, where they will meet a dog, who has come with his veterinary student master. Animal assisted therapy session will last at most 20 minutes, in which the patient is going to interact with the dog, pet him, play with him, etc.
All patients will have nasal swab sampling at inclusion and 7 days after AAT session or sham session in order to screen multidrug resistant bacteria
Before and after AAT or sham session, patients will answer State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Y (STAI-Y), Profile of Mood States (POMS) questionnaires.
Before and after AAT or sham session, blood pressure, heart rate dans respiratory rate will be measured.
Before and after AAT or sham session, pain will be evaluated thanks to VAS
Patients will answer IES-R questionnaire 3 months after AAT or sham session
Patients of the AAT group will answer satisfaction questionnaire at the end of the AAT session and 3 months after AAT
All patients will have rectal swab sampling at inclusion and 7 days after AAT session or sham session in order to screen multidrug resistant bacteria
Hôpital Edouard Herriot - Anesthesiology department
Lyon, France
State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Y (STAI-Y) score
Self-administered questionnaire, of 20 questions whose answers are either "No", "Rather no" "Rather yes" "Yes". Points calculated are 1 point for each "No" answer, up to 4 points for each "Yes" answer. Thus, score can be at least 20 points, at most 80 points.
Time frame: Before randomization
State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Y (STAI-Y) score
Self-administered questionnaire, of 20 questions whose answers are either "No", "Rather no" "Rather yes" "Yes". Points calculated are 1 point for each "No" answer, up to 4 points for each "Yes" answer. Thus, score can be at least 20 points, at most 80 points.
Time frame: 2 days after inclusion, before AAT or sham session
State-Trait Anxiety Inventory Y (STAI-Y) score
Self-administered questionnaire, of 20 questions whose answers are either "No", "Rather no" "Rather yes" "Yes". Points calculated are 1 point for each "No" answer, up to 4 points for each "Yes" answer. Thus, score can be at least 20 points, at most 80 points.
Time frame: 2 days after inclusion, after AAT or sham session
Profile Of Mood States (POMS) score
Self-administered questionnaire, of 37 questions, whose answers are either "not at all", "a little", "moderately", "quite a lot", or "extremely". Each adjective in the POMS questionnaire is awarded the following score: * 0 - Not at all * 1 - A little * 2 - Moderately * 3 - Quite a Lot * 4 - Extremely except "Relaxed" and "Efficient" and they score the reverse: * 4 - Not at all * 3 - A little * 2 - Moderately * 1 - Quite a Lot * 0 - Extremely Thus, the score can range from 0 up to 148 points.
Time frame: 2 days after inclusion, before AAT or sham session
Profile Of Mood States (POMS) score
Self-administered questionnaire, of 37 questions, whose answers are either "not at all", "a little", "moderately", "quite a lot", or "extremely". Each adjective in the POMS questionnaire is awarded the following score: * 0 - Not at all * 1 - A little * 2 - Moderately * 3 - Quite a Lot * 4 - Extremely except "Relaxed" and "Efficient" and they score the reverse: * 4 - Not at all * 3 - A little * 2 - Moderately * 1 - Quite a Lot * 0 - Extremely Thus, the score can range from 0 up to 148 points.
Time frame: 2 days after inclusion, after AAT or sham session
Blood pressure
Physiological parameters noted on the patient usual monitoring in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), which the patient will keep during the whole session.
Time frame: 2 days after inclusion, before AAT or sham session
Blood pressure
Physiological parameters noted on the patient usual monitoring in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), which the patient will keep during the whole session.
Time frame: 2 days after inclusion, after AAT or sham session
Heart rate
Physiological parameters noted on the patient usual monitoring in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), which the patient will keep during the whole session.
Time frame: 2 days after inclusion, before AAT or sham session
Heart rate
Physiological parameters noted on the patient usual monitoring in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), which the patient will keep during the whole session.
Time frame: 2 days after inclusion, after AAT or sham session
Respiratory rate
Physiological parameters noted on the patient usual monitoring in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), which the patient will keep during the whole session.
Time frame: 2 days after inclusion, before AAT or sham session
Respiratory rate
Physiological parameters noted on the patient usual monitoring in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), which the patient will keep during the whole session.
Time frame: 2 days after inclusion, after AAT or sham session
Visual Analog Scale (VAS) score
Pain scale, from 0 = no pain at all, up to 10 = pain at maximum level
Time frame: 2 days after inclusion, before AAT or sham session
Visual Analog Scale (VAS) score
Pain scale, from 0 = no pain at all, up to 10 = pain at maximum level
Time frame: 2 days after inclusion, after AAT or sham session
Presence of Multi-drug resistant bacteria
Nasal and rectal sampling, looking for methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus in nasal sampling, and multi-drug resistant bacteria in rectal sampling
Time frame: At inclusion
Presence of Multi-drug resistant bacteria
Nasal and rectal sampling, looking for methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus in nasal sampling, and multi-drug resistant bacteria in rectal sampling
Time frame: 7 days after AAT or sham session
Impact of Event Scale - Revised (IES-R) score
Score for post traumatic stress disease. 22 questions self administered, whose answers are either "not at all", "a little", "moderately", "quite a lot", or "extremely". Each question is awarded score from 0 ("not at all") up to 4 ("extremely"). Thus, the total score ranges from 0 up to 88 points.
Time frame: 90 days after AAT or sham session
Patient Satisfaction score
Only for AAT group
Time frame: 2 days after inclusion, at the end of AAT session
Patient Satisfaction score
Only for AAT group
Time frame: 90 days after AAT session
Caregiver Satisfaction score
Time frame: 2 days after inclusion, at the end of AAT session
Caregiver Satisfaction score
Time frame: 90 days after AAT or sham session
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