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Pets and health
1Bellevue Hospital Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York 10016-6481, USA. brasij01@popmail.med.nyu.edu
Psychological Reports
|January 29, 1999
Abstract:
Beneficial and adverse effects of pets for individuals in a wide range of circumstances have been reported. Nevertheless, well-designed unbiased experiments and long-term follow-up studies are needed. Pets appear to be therapeutic for some individuals and deleterious for others. The controversies concerning the effects of pets on health merit objective assessment by unbiased researchers.