NCT07861620Completed
Animal-Assisted Intervention for Children With Cancer and Their Siblings
Ti Sento: A Clinical Study of Affective and Sensory Effects in Patients With Hematologic or Oncologic Disease and Their Siblings Following Animal-Assisted Interventions
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 9 Oct 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study examined an animal-assisted program for children with hematologic or oncologic disease and their siblings. The program included ten weekly sessions involving dogs and donkeys. Children allocated to the program were compared with children on a waiting list. Assessments were conducted before the program, approximately 15 days after the last session, and approximately two months after the last session. The study assessed children's reported life events, emotional indicators in human figure drawings, family relationships, and parents' coping styles. Waiting-list participants were offered the program after their own final follow-up assessment. This study is being registered retrospectively, after study completion and analysis.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 50 (actual)
- First submitted
- 1 Oct 2026
- Start date
- 15 Jan 2024
- Primary completion date
- 5 Jul 2024
- Lead sponsor
- Azienda Ulss 2 Marca Trevigiana
- Diseases
- Childhood cancers
- NCT number
- NCT07861620
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 50
- From 15 Jan 2024 to the primary completion date, 5 Jul 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
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Other illness
- Signs of infectious illness.
Other
- Refusal of the animal-assisted intervention.
- Severe immune compromise.
Who the study is looking for
- Age 3 to 25 years.
- Patient with a hematologic or oncologic disease followed by the pediatric hemato-oncology service, or a sibling of such a patient. Siblings did not need to have the disease.
- Clinical suitability for participation in the animal-assisted program, as assessed by the clinical team.
- Informed consent from an adult participant or parent/legal guardian, with age-appropriate assent from minors.
Age in the registry: 3 years to 25 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ca' Foncello Hospital, Pediatric Hemato-Oncology Unit, Azienda ULSS 2 Marca Trevigiana Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Treviso | Italy | Unknown status |
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