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Pets Treatment Report


Reasons used

240 patients in the community are using or have used Pets.

Top 10 (Show all)

Duration

How long current patients have been using Pets or how long patients were using Pets before stopping.

Currently Using Pets

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
1
3
30
14
88

Stopped Using Pets

0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
1
0
0
0
0
2
Why Patients Stopped Using Pets (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 2 67% Other: 67%
Did not seem to work 1 33% Did not seem to work: 33%

Patient Reported Evaluations

Results from 38 patient evaluations. See the overall results and all individual evaluations.

Efficacy (Effect based on reason taken)

Major 60% 6
Moderate 40% 4

General health

Side-effects (as an overall problem)

Severe 0% 0
Moderate 11% 4
Mild 21% 8
None 68% 26

Top reported side-effects include: Allergies, pets, hair on furniture lol, Have to clean up after!

Summary results are based on 38 individual responses. For more information, see overall results for Adherence, Burden and Cost.

Individual Patient Reported Evaluations (2 of 38)

  • fragiletruth
    Sex: F
    Depression: 0
    Emotional: 0
    Compulsion: 0
    Anxiety: 0
    Mania: 2
    Physical: 0
    External Stress: Low
    24 F
    Function: High
    Distress: Low
  • fragiletruth
  • by fragiletruth
    Aug 18, 2008
  • EfficacyModerate
  • Side-effectsNone
  • General health
Advice/Tips
Take good care of your cats, and they will delight you for years.

  • GoodTimes
    Sex: M
    Depression: 2
    Emotional: 2
    Compulsion: 0
    Anxiety: 1
    Mania: 0
    Physical: 0
    External Stress: Moderate
    38 M
    Function: Moderate
    Distress: Low
  • GoodTimes
  • by GoodTimes
    Aug 18, 2008
  • EfficacyModerate
  • Side-effectsModerate
  • Don't know
Advice/Tips
Buy a lot of hair rollers and a Dyson vacuum cleaner

See all evaluation results for Pets

Report created on November 07, 2009.