Potential benefits of pet-facilitated therapy (PFT) in people with disabilities

The term disability referred to the impairments, activity limitations and restrictions in participation. People with disabilities need special care with alternative therapy to improve their optimum function, quality of life and reduce burdens of their families and communities. Pet facilitated therap...

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Main Authors:	Zaw, Cho Cho, Ahmad, Norfadzilah, ., Myat Min @ Mohd Omar
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Language:	English
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Subjects:	R Medicine (General) RT Nursing
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spelling	iium-765642019-12-08T13:06:56Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/76564/ Potential benefits of pet-facilitated therapy (PFT) in people with disabilities Zaw, Cho Cho Ahmad, Norfadzilah ., Myat Min @ Mohd Omar R Medicine (General) RT Nursing The term disability referred to the impairments, activity limitations and restrictions in participation. People with disabilities need special care with alternative therapy to improve their optimum function, quality of life and reduce burdens of their families and communities. Pet facilitated therapy (PFT) has becomes popular among researchers and health care professionals from the developed countries and it is considered as an alternative therapy for people with disabilities. However, the awareness and usage of PFT in Malaysia and Asian countries are still very limited. The lack of information about PFT can lead to the lesser opportunities in searching for physical and mental improvements of the children, elderly and people with disabilities. Thus, this study aims to explore the literature work regarding the potential benefits of PFT in the disabilities in order to highlight the awareness about it among health care providers and public. The systematic literature search was used as a methodology, and three themes namely PFT in clients with physical and mental disabilities, PFT in children with autism, PFT in the elderly with disabilities are presented and discussed. The findings revealed the potential benefits and the use of PFT as an alternative and complementary therapy in people with disabilities after carefully removing the potential risk factors of PFT. SAS publisher 2019-11-18 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/76564/1/SJAMS-711-3626-3633.pdf Zaw, Cho Cho and Ahmad, Norfadzilah and ., Myat Min @ Mohd Omar (2019) Potential benefits of pet-facilitated therapy (PFT) in people with disabilities. Scholars Journal of Applied Medical Sciences, 7 (11). pp. 3626-3633. ISSN 2347-954X E-ISSN 2320-6691 https://saspublisher.com/sjams/ 10.36347/SJAMS.2019.v07i11.028
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spellingShingle	R Medicine (General) RT Nursing Zaw, Cho Cho Ahmad, Norfadzilah ., Myat Min @ Mohd Omar Potential benefits of pet-facilitated therapy (PFT) in people with disabilities
description	The term disability referred to the impairments, activity limitations and restrictions in participation. People with disabilities need special care with alternative therapy to improve their optimum function, quality of life and reduce burdens of their families and communities. Pet facilitated therapy (PFT) has becomes popular among researchers and health care professionals from the developed countries and it is considered as an alternative therapy for people with disabilities. However, the awareness and usage of PFT in Malaysia and Asian countries are still very limited. The lack of information about PFT can lead to the lesser opportunities in searching for physical and mental improvements of the children, elderly and people with disabilities. Thus, this study aims to explore the literature work regarding the potential benefits of PFT in the disabilities in order to highlight the awareness about it among health care providers and public. The systematic literature search was used as a methodology, and three themes namely PFT in clients with physical and mental disabilities, PFT in children with autism, PFT in the elderly with disabilities are presented and discussed. The findings revealed the potential benefits and the use of PFT as an alternative and complementary therapy in people with disabilities after carefully removing the potential risk factors of PFT.
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author	Zaw, Cho Cho Ahmad, Norfadzilah ., Myat Min @ Mohd Omar
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title	Potential benefits of pet-facilitated therapy (PFT) in people with disabilities
title_short	Potential benefits of pet-facilitated therapy (PFT) in people with disabilities
title_full	Potential benefits of pet-facilitated therapy (PFT) in people with disabilities
title_fullStr	Potential benefits of pet-facilitated therapy (PFT) in people with disabilities
title_full_unstemmed	Potential benefits of pet-facilitated therapy (PFT) in people with disabilities
title_sort	potential benefits of pet-facilitated therapy (pft) in people with disabilities
publisher	SAS publisher
publishDate	2019
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Potential benefits of pet-facilitated therapy (PFT) in people with disabilities

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