研究：宠物可使心脏病人减轻焦虑_科技Science
dallas - charles denson's face brightens as a speckled australian shepherd named bart cuddles next to him while he rests in his hospital bed. "you've got a pretty coat," the 51-year-old heart patient says while stroking bart's soft fur.
new research indicates that hospitals that use such pet therapy sessions aren't barking up the wrong tree.
cole, a nurse at the university of california los angeles medical center who led the study, and her colleagues studied 76 heart failure patients — average age 57 — who got either a visit from a volunteer, a volunteer plus a dog, or no visit.
the scientists meticulously measured patients' physiological responses before, during and after the visits. anxiety as measured by a standard rating scale dropped 24 percent for those visited by the dog and volunteer team, but only by 10 percent for those visited by just a volunteer. the scores for the group with no visit remained the same.
new research indicates that hospitals that use such pet therapy sessions aren't barking up the wrong tree.
cole, a nurse at the university of california los angeles medical center who led the study, and her colleagues studied 76 heart failure patients — average age 57 — who got either a visit from a volunteer, a volunteer plus a dog, or no visit.
the scientists meticulously measured patients' physiological responses before, during and after the visits. anxiety as measured by a standard rating scale dropped 24 percent for those visited by the dog and volunteer team, but only by 10 percent for those visited by just a volunteer. the scores for the group with no visit remained the same.