Can dogs reduce stress levels in school children? effects of dog-assisted interventions on salivary cortisol in children with and without special educational needs using randomized controlled trials

• Kerstin Meints ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kmeints@lincoln.ac.uk

  Affiliation School of Psychology, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1048-5091

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• Victoria L. Brelsford,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

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• Mirena Dimolareva,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, School of Science, Bath Spa University, Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom

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• Laëtitia Maréchal,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

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• Kyla Pennington,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

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• Elise Rowan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Psychology, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

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• Nancy R. Gee

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Human-Animal Interaction, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2890-9884

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