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Stressed students can reduce anxiety, enhance thinking skills by petting therapy dogs: Study ANI | Updated: May 16, 2021 19:26 IST
Washington [US], May 16 (ANI): A new study has found that college students who are under pressure may bust their stress by spending time petting a therapy dog.
The study was published in AERA Open, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.
According to the new Washington State University research, programs exclusively focused on petting therapy dogs improved stressed-out students thinking and planning skills more effectively than programs that included traditional stress-management information.
The study demonstrated that stressed students still exhibited these cognitive skills improvements up to six weeks after completion of the four-week-long program.
Petting therapy dogs can reduce anxiety, enhance thinking skills in stressed students
Washington: Pet your stress away! For college students under pressure, spending time petting a therapy dog can work as the best stress buster. The study was published in AERA Open, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association.
According to the new Washington State University research, programs exclusively focused on petting therapy dogs improved stressed-out students thinking and planning skills more effectively than programs that included traditional stress-management information.
The study demonstrated that stressed students still exhibited these cognitive skills improvements up to six weeks after completion of the four-week-long program.
Petting Therapy Dogs as Stress Buster
by Dr Jayashree on May 14, 2021 at 8:49 PM
Petting therapy dogs program can effectively reduce the anxiety in college students under stress and enhance their thinking skills.
New Washington State University research measured executive functioning in the 309 students by assigning one of three academic stress-management programs featuring varying combinations of human-animal interaction and evidenced-based academic stress management to them.
The results of the study published in journal
American Educational Research Association, show stressed students exhibit improved cognitive skills after completion of the four-week-long program.
‘Cope Stress with Petting Dogs’
Human-animal interaction programs help by letting struggling students relax as they talk and think about their stressors. Through petting animals, they are more likely to relax and cope with these stressors rather than become overwhelmed. This enhances students ability to