Farm animal-assisted intervention: Relationship between work and contact with farm animals and change in depression, anxiety, and self-efficacy among persons with clinical depression

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 493-500

  Pedersen, Ingeborg ^a   Nordaunet, Trine ^a   Martinsen, Egil Wilhelm ^b,c   Berget, Bente ^a   Braastad, Bjarne O ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DAIRYING; DEPRESSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORWAY; SELF CONCEPT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ANIMAL ASSISTED THERAPY; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANXIETY; CATTLE; DAIRYING; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; SELF EFFICACY; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 79960693630     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/01612840.2011.566982     Document Type: Article

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