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What is Service Dog?
A service dog is a type of assistance dog, specifically trained to help people who have disabilities other than visual or hearing impairment, or medical response dogs. Service dogs are sometimes trained and bred by private organizations. In other cases, a disabled handler may train their own dog with or without the aid of a private dog trainer.
Reported Purpose & Efficacy
| Purpose | # of patients |
# of patients with evaluations
Efficacy
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Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell |
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| Balance problems | 7 | 2 |
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| Support mental / emotional health | 3 | 2 |
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| Neurological fatigue | 3 | 0 | |||||
| multiple purposes | 2 | 0 | |||||
| Cognitive Confusion | 2 | 1 |
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| Gait problems | 1 | 0 |
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Reported Side Effects
Commonly reported side effects, conditions, and hospitalizations associated with Service Dog
| Frustration | 1 | |
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| Training as service dog; taking outside; dealing with (terrier) hyperactivity | 1 |
Reported Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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| Other | 2 |  |
Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼
Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
Adherence
Taking treatment as prescribed
Adherence of Service Dog
Always |
3 | 50% |
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Usually |
2 | 33% |
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Sometimes |
1 | 17% |
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Never |
0 | 0% |
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Burden
Difficulty being on treatment
Burden of Service Dog
Very |
0 | 0% |
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Somewhat |
2 | 33% |
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A little |
2 | 33% |
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Not at all |
2 | 33% |
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Cost
Paid out of pocket
Cost of Service Dog
$200+ |
1 | 25% |
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$100-199 |
1 | 25% |
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$50-99 |
0 | 0% |
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$25-49 |
0 | 0% |
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< $25 |
0 | 0% |
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Patient Evaluations
See all 6 patient evaluations
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- Aturo
- daily
- since Apr 21, 2010
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Efficacy
Major
for Balance problems
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Side Effects
Mild
- See full evaluation
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- Anna-Magdalena
- daily
- since Jan 03, 2011
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Efficacy
Major
for Support mental / emotional health
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- theexpress
- daily
- since Sep 01, 2011
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Support social interaction
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips We originally got our dog to train him to be a therapy dog. While he did go through some canine good citizen classes, we have essentially discontinued his tr... See full evaluation
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Report created on February 11, 2012.