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NCT05577234Completed

Contribution of Animal-assisted Intervention in Oral Healthcare for Disabled Patients (YODA)

Contribution of Animal-assisted Intervention in Oral Healthcare for Disabled Patients

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 11 Mar 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The purpose of this study is to determine whether animal-assisted therapy during 2 care sessions then facilitates conventional ambulatory management without animal assistance in anxious uncooperative children with autism.

Status (registry)
Completed
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
50 (actual)
First submitted
5 Sept 2022
Start date
24 Mar 2023
Primary completion date
25 Mar 2024
Lead sponsor
Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
Diseases
Autism
NCT number
NCT05577234

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Participants enrolled: 50
  • From 24 Mar 2023 to the primary completion date, 25 Mar 2024
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

Copied verbatim from ClinicalTrials.gov and grouped by topic. Only the trial team decides who can take part.

Other illness

  • Child with dog allergy
  • Who claims never to have been exposed to a dog (allergy risk not assessed)

Other

  • Cynophobia
  • Patient on AME

Who the study is looking for

  • Minors aged ≥ 6 to ≤ 17 years,
  • Carriers of Autism Spectrum Disorder.
  • Child with an average Venham scale score ≥ 3 at the end of the care of the inclusion session
  • Who accept the presence of the dog
  • Who declare having been in contact with a dog in the past
  • Consent from the child's legal guardians for the child's participation in the study,
  • Be affiliated to a social security scheme in their own name or be the legal guardian of a person with parental authority.
  • A state of health requiring a simple, non-complex dental procedure (preventive, carious, traumatic or orthodontic care, excluding complex surgery in the operating theatre)
  • A state of health requiring a dental treatment protocol consisting of at least 3 scheduled treatment sessions spaced at least 7 days and no more than 21 days apart.

Age in the registry: 6 years to 17 years · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.

SiteCityCountrySite status
Hôpital Bretonneau - Service d'odontologie
Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status
ParisFranceUnknown status

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