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Veterans’ Service Dogs Most Commonly Ease Anxiety

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PTSD)? A new study, published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, found that the most important and most commonly performed task involved the dog disrupting the veteran’s anxiety episodes.While previous studies have shown that service dogs can benefit some veterans with PTSD, it has remained unclear the exact role they play in their day-to-day lives.“There has been some debate on what kind of training PTSD service dogs need to be effective and how their assistance may be different than what a pet dog can provide,” said Kerri Rodriguez, a human-animal interaction graduate student at Purdue University’s College of Veterinary Medicine and a lead author on the study.“This study suggests that veterans are, in fact, using and benefiting from.

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