{"id":209029,"date":"2025-03-18T13:17:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/therapy-dogs-can-ease-young-patients-anxiety-in-the-emergency-room"},"modified":"2025-03-18T13:17:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T18:17:40","slug":"therapy-dogs-can-ease-young-patients-anxiety-in-the-emergency-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/therapy-dogs-can-ease-young-patients-anxiety-in-the-emergency-room","title":{"rendered":"Therapy dogs can ease young patients\u2019 anxiety in the emergency room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/therapy-dogs-can-ease-young-patients-anxiety-in-the-emergency-room.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About 10 minutes with a therapy dog soothed kids who felt anxious about being emergency room patients.<\/p>\n<p>A clinical trial found that after spending time with a dog, young patients reported a <a href=\"https:\/\/media.jamanetwork.com\/embargoed-articles\/?_articles=03ba9b646e\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">significantly larger decrease in their anxiety<\/a> than kids who didn\u2019t have dog time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 10 minutes with a therapy dog soothed kids who felt anxious about being emergency room patients. A clinical trial found that after spending time with a dog, young patients reported a significantly larger decrease in their anxiety than kids who didn\u2019t have dog time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}