Can sheep help to improve positive emotions, mindfulness, and self-efficacy expectancy? A pilot study of animal-assisted intervention as an enhanced CBT-based therapy for substance use disorders

Petra Schmid, Carmen Nauss, Claudia Jauch-Ederer, Petra Prinz, Stefan Tschöke, Carmen Uhlmann

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2024. DOI 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1432679

Has this study been replicated?

The atlas records 1 replication of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 successful.

"The Sheep Did It Again": Replication of Animal-Assisted Treatment in Psychiatric Inpatients with Substance Use Disorder and Borderline Personality Disorder in a Randomized Controlled Trial, Schmid et al. (2025). Outcome recorded: successful. In the SUD sample, significant effects between PRE and POST, with large effect sizes in all four outcomes, emerged for the TAU+AAT group, in contrast to TAU. View paper