The effect of Animal-assisted therapy on prosocial behavior and emotional regulation in autistic children with varying verbal abilities: A pilot study

• Michele Kilmer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michele Kilmer, Minju Hong

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

  * E-mail: michelek@uark.edu

  Affiliation Eleanor Mann School of Nursing, The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7179-3445

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• Minju Hong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Michele Kilmer, Minju Hong

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

  Affiliation College of Social Science, Chung-Ang University, Dongjak-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Victor Akakpo ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ VA,TH,DR and SH,AR,MB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Eleanor Mann School of Nursing, The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Terria Hawley ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ VA,TH,DR and SH,AR,MB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Eleanor Mann School of Nursing, The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Danielle Randolph ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ VA,TH,DR and SH,AR,MB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Eleanor Mann School of Nursing, The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Sarah Huetter ,

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

  ¶‡ VA,TH,DR and SH,AR,MB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Eleanor Mann School of Nursing, The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

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• Allison Reichel ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ VA,TH,DR and SH,AR,MB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Eleanor Mann School of Nursing, The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2052-4372

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• Madelyn Bowden

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ VA,TH,DR and SH,AR,MB also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Eleanor Mann School of Nursing, The University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States of America

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