Animal-Assisted Intervention: A Promising Approach to Obesity Prevention for Youth With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Front Vet Sci. 2021 May 19:8:646081. doi: 10.3389/fvets.2021.646081. eCollection 2021.

Aviva Must¹, Christina M Mulé^{2

3}, Deborah E Linder⁴, Sean B Cash⁵, Sara C Folta⁵

¹ Department of Public Health & Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.
² Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, United States.
³ Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States.
⁴ Tufts Institute for Human-Animal Interaction, Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, North Grafton, MA, United States.
⁵ Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA, United States.

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Keywords: animal-assisted intervention; autism spectrum disorder; human-animal bond; human-animal interaction; obesity.

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