Data and facts about how being around dogs benefit infants and children.
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Infant Development
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Dog Ownership Reduces Risk of Development Delay
External link:
Minatoya M, Araki A, Miyashita C, Itoh S, Kobayashi S, Yamazaki K, Ait Bamai Y, Saijyo Y, Ito Y, Kishi R, et al. Cat and Dog Ownership in Early Life and Infant Development: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study of Japan Environment and Children’s Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2020; 17(1):205. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17010205
ASQ-3 Childhood Score By Pet Ownership
| All | Having Cat(s) | Having Dog(s) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ASQ Subscale | All | Yes | No | Yes | No | |
| Communication | Pass % | 92.8 | 92.8 | 92.9 | 94.7 | 92.6 |
| Fail % | 7.1 | 7.2 | 7.1 | 5.3 | 7.4 | |
| Gross motor | Pass % | 85.7 | 86.3 | 85.6 | 87.3 | 85.4 |
| Fail % | 14.3 | 13.7 | 14.4 | 12.7 | 14.6 | |
| Fine motor | Pass % | 89.7 | 90.2 | 89.7 | 90.9 | 89.6 |
| Fail % | 10.2 | 9.8 | 10.3 | 9.1 | 10.4 | |
| Problem-solving | Pass % | 84.1 | 84.3 | 84.2 | 85.3 | 84.1 |
| Fail % | 15.7 | 15.7 | 15.8 | 14.7 | 15.9 | |
| Personal-social | Pass % | 82.3 | 83.7 | 82.5 | 84.9 | 82.2 |
| Fail % | 17.3 | 16.3 | 17.5 | 15.1 | 17.8 |
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Children Development
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Animal-Themed Humane Education Develops Empathy
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William Ellery Samuels, Nnenna Onuoha-Jackson, Learning to care: An in-school humane education program improves affective and cognitive empathy among lower-elementary students, International Journal of Educational Research Open, Volume 5, 2023, 100292, ISSN 2666-3740, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijedro.2023.100292
Basic Empathy Scale (Chinese version)
| Affective Empathy | Cognitive Empathy | |||
| Group | Pretest | Posttest | Pretest | Posttest |
| Control Group Total | −0.105 | 0.219 | 0.085 | −0.034 |
| Experimental Group Total | −0.369 | 0.288 | −0.022 | −0.021 |
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Humane Education Boosts Reading Skills
External link:
O’Connor J, Samuels WE. Humane Education’s Effect on Middle School Student Motivation and Standards-Based Reading Assessment. Social Sciences. 2021; 10(10):376. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10100376
Mean number of items answered correctly on Common Core State Standards (CCSS) reading assessment
| Group | Mean |
|---|---|
| Total | |
| Control | 2.82 |
| Experimental (Animal-themed Passages) | 3.41 |
| RI 5.1 | |
| Control | 0.68 |
| Experimental (Animal-themed Passages) | 0.88 |
| RI 5.2 | |
| Control | 0.78 |
| Experimental (Animal-themed Passages) | 0.75 |
| RI 5.3 | |
| Control | 0.69 |
| Experimental (Animal-themed Passages) | 0.94 |
| RI 5.4 | |
| Control | 0.53 |
| Experimental (Animal-themed Passages) | 0.61 |
| RI 5.5 | |
| Control | 0.61 |
| Experimental (Animal-themed Passages) | 0.86 |
| RI 5.8 | |
| Control | 0.61 |
| Experimental (Animal-themed Passages) | 0.76 |