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. 2023 Nov 3:14:1277338.
doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1277338. eCollection 2023.

Equine-assisted interventions for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder: a systematic review

Jiaxin Li  1 , Raúl Sánchez-García  1
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Equine-assisted interventions for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder: a systematic review

Jiaxin Li et al. Front Psychiatry. .

Abstract

Equine-assisted intervention therapy has a nearly 60-year history and has been shown to have a significant positive impact on various types of psychotherapy patients. Due to an increase in research on EAT, the number of existing methods of equine-assisted intervention therapy has gradually increased. Based on existing literature on the application of equine-assisted intervention therapy on veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), this study examines the characteristics of several types of equine interventions and includes a systematic review of peer-reviewed literature on equine-assisted interventions for veterans with PTSD published over the past 5 years, from 2018 to the present. Ten articles met the review criteria and served as the primary data for analysis. Several types of equine-assisted interventions were shown to have a beneficial psychological impact on veterans. However, some limitations were also found in the studies, such as that the majority of experiments were constrained by small sample sizes. Equine-assisted intervention therapy has been shown to be effective, but further research is merited, in order to focus on the specific details and theories involved in equine-assisted interventions, and on the welfare of the horses involved in the therapy.

Keywords: equestrian; equine-assisted interventions; post-traumatic stress disorder; systematic review; veterans.

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