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Sara Guerra1, Liliana Sousa1, Oscar Ribeiro1
1Department of Education and Psychology, Centre for Health Technology and Services Research (CINTESIS), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal.
Background:
Animal hoarding has been portrayed as a manifestation of hoarding behaviour that is escalating worldwide. Professionals trying to support or help animal hoarders face several challenges due to the lack of systematized information on intervention strategies.
Aims:
To comprehensively review and systematize the information available on intervention practices with this population.
Method:
A scoping study was performed using five databases (B-ON, EBSCO, SCOPUS, Web of SCIENCE, PubMed), searching for papers published until March 2020. Fifteen papers were selected and submitted to thematic analysis.
Results:
The main findings point to two main themes: (i) what is done-responding to animal hoarding as an emergency; and (ii) what should be done-responding animal hoarding in a long-term, integrated manner.
Conclusions:
To have a consistent strategy that assures better results, it seems relevant to prepare community interventions based on collaborative and solution-focused approaches. In addition, there is a strong need to have more research on animal hoarding and on successful intervention strategies.
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