Exploring the benefits of full-time hospital facility dogs working with nurse handlers in a children’s hospital

• Natsuko Murata-Kobayashi ,

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

  * E-mail: natsuko@sokids.org

  Affiliation Specified Nonprofit Organization Shine On Kids, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4661-5329

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• Keiko Suzuki,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliations Specified Nonprofit Organization Shine On Kids, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Shizuoka Children’s Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan

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• Yuko Morita,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Specified Nonprofit Organization Shine On Kids, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Harumi Minobe,

  Roles Data curation, Resources

  Affiliation Shizuoka Children’s Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan

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• Atsushi Mizumoto,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kansai University, Suita-shi, Osaka, Japan

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• Shiro Seto

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Shizuoka Children’s Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan

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