Animal-assisted therapy for patients in a minimally conscious state: A randomized two treatment multi-period crossover trial

• Karin Hediger ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: karin.hediger@unibas.ch

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, REHAB Basel, Clinic for neurorehabilitation and paraplegiology, Basel, Switzerland, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Human and Animal Health Unit, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research on the Human-Animal Relationship Switzerland, Basel, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7202-4816

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• Milena Petignat,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, REHAB Basel, Clinic for neurorehabilitation and paraplegiology, Basel, Switzerland

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• Rahel Marti,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, REHAB Basel, Clinic for neurorehabilitation and paraplegiology, Basel, Switzerland

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• Margret Hund-Georgiadis

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation REHAB Basel, Clinic for neurorehabilitation and paraplegiology, Basel, Switzerland

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