Developing on Campus AAA Program for College Studets' Menatal Health

Research Project

Project/Area Number	26590156
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Clinical psychology
Research Institution	Yokohama National University
Principal Investigator	YASUNO Maiko 横浜国立大学, 高大接続・全学教育推進センター, 准教授 (20507793)
Project Period (FY)	2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
Budget Amount *help	¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000) Fiscal Year 2015: ¥390,000 (Direct Cost: ¥300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥90,000) Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywords	大学生 / メンタルヘルス / 動物介在活動 / いのちの教育 / 学生支援 / 学修支援 / 人と動物の関係 / 殺処分 / 学習支援 / メンタルヘルスケア / 動物介在プログラム
Outline of Final Research Achievements	The purpous of this study was to develop an Animal Assisted Activitiy (AAA) program for students’ mental health on college campus. This study also aimed to explore how to reduce cats that were supposed to be killed by public animal shelters. Using a cat, which was relased from an animal shelter, as an theapy animal, 9 college students were disignated to play with him freely. This experiment showed that the cat brought stress relief to all participants. After this expriment, AAA was conductd at a college library. Many students participatd in this acticity and enjoyed playing with cats fully. Many participants calimed that it was great stress relief for them and gave them motivation to study more.