'Bringing respite in the burden of illness'–dog handlers' experience of visiting older persons with dementia together with a therapy dog

A Swall, B Ebbeskog, C Lundh Hagelin… - Journal of clinical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… Respite from the burden of illness for persons with dementia Being a dog handler provides
an opportunity to lift the burden of illness from the shoulders of persons with dementia, to …

Interactions between handler well-being and canine health and behavior in search and rescue teams

M Hunt, CM Otto, JA Serpell, J Alvarez - Anthrozoös, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
illness and/or death in the dog was prospectively associated with greater symptoms of
depression in the handler… To reduce the burden of participation on handlers and to reduce attrition…

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation of leptospirosis knowledge, attitude and practice among dog handlers

SH Goh, KH Khor, SF Lau, R Ismail… - J Vet …, 2019 - psasir.upm.edu.my
dog handlers but not the dog shelter handlers. In our study, only 58% of working dog handlers
and only 90% of dog shelter handlers … Our result among dog shelter handlers was similar …

Epidemiology of vector-borne pathogens among US government working dogs

AC Meyers, L Auckland, HF Meyers… - Vector-Borne and …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
… Written consent was received for each dog sampled from their handler. … than 1600 dogs,
we used a geographically stratified random process to select 476 dogs since working dogs are …

Current standards and practices within the therapy dog industry: Results of a representative survey of United States therapy dog organizations

JA Serpell, KA Kruger, LM Freeman… - Frontiers in veterinary …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… of their household have symptoms of communicable illness. Routine health screening of …
, respectively, and 58% require that therapy dog handlers be at least 18 years of age (Table 6). …

The Mental Health Effects of Vicarious Trauma, Moral Injury, and Positive Religious Coping with Canine Comfort Handlers

TJ O'Brien-Cross - 2024 - digitalcommons.liberty.edu
… For the current research study, canine comfort dogs and handlers were the target population.
As reviewed previously, comfort dogs are essentially canines that are professionally and …

Looking after chronically iii dogs: impacts on the caregiver's life

SB Christiansen, AT Kristensen, P Sandøe, J Lassen - Anthrozoös, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
… when handling waste from dogs receiving chemotherapy. … visits could be a financial burden,
requiring compromises on … episodes of illness leaving relatively little time for the dog to feel …

[HTML][HTML] Self-reported selected zoonotic diseases among animal handlers in Urban Ahmedabad, India

K Patel, D Saxena - Veterinary World, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
burden and knowledge about Z/D/S among animal handlers … in handling animals (such as
cattle, buffalos, cows, goat, dog, … /S symptomatic illness that could be possibly due to handling

The health of working dogs in conservation in Africa

N Earnshaw, N Anderson, J Mackay… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
… is the handler training is that, you know, the dogs, the dogs’ … a tsetse burden and all three
trainers had deployed dogs to … death and severe illness in their dogs and expressed frustration …

Gastrointestinal parasites in shelter dogs: occurrence, pathology, treatment and risk to shelter workers

A Raza, J Rand, AG Qamar, A Jabbar, S Kopp - Animals, 2018 - mdpi.com
… for illness in shelter dogs [21]. Studies comparing different … and parasite burden of trichuriasis
is higher in adult dogs … and dog handlers or caretakers can acquire infection from dogs