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Association between Early Life Child Development and Family Dog Ownership: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study

Pets may play a role in the social-emotional development of children. In particular, some studies have suggested that family dog ownership is associated with better health outcomes. To date, no study has assessed child development in association with dog ownership of different time points. The purpo...

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Autores principales: Minatoya, Machiko, Ikeda-Araki, Atsuko, Miyashita, Chihiro, Itoh, Sachiko, Kobayashi, Sumitaka, Yamazaki, Keiko, Ait Bamai, Yu, Saijo, Yasuaki, Sato, Yukihiro, Ito, Yoshiya, Kishi, Reiko
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8295854/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34281019
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18137082
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author Minatoya, Machiko
Ikeda-Araki, Atsuko
Miyashita, Chihiro
Itoh, Sachiko
Kobayashi, Sumitaka
Yamazaki, Keiko
Ait Bamai, Yu
Saijo, Yasuaki
Sato, Yukihiro
Ito, Yoshiya
Kishi, Reiko
author_facet Minatoya, Machiko
Ikeda-Araki, Atsuko
Miyashita, Chihiro
Itoh, Sachiko
Kobayashi, Sumitaka
Yamazaki, Keiko
Ait Bamai, Yu
Saijo, Yasuaki
Sato, Yukihiro
Ito, Yoshiya
Kishi, Reiko
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description Pets may play a role in the social-emotional development of children. In particular, some studies have suggested that family dog ownership is associated with better health outcomes. To date, no study has assessed child development in association with dog ownership of different time points. The purpose of the current study was primary to investigate whether “ever” family dog ownership was associated with early child development, and secondary to further examine whether associations between family dog ownership and early child development differ among family dog ownership of status, including “past only”, “current only”, and “always” groups, using the data of family dog ownership obtained at multiple time points. Associations between family dog ownership and infant development at 3 years of age were examined using data from a nationwide prospective birth cohort study, the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (n = 78,941). “Ever” family dog ownership was categorized to “past only”, “current only”, and “always”. We observed that children with “ever” family dog ownership showed a significantly decreased risk of developmental delay in the communication (odds ratio [OR] = 0.87; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.78, 0.96), gross motor (OR = 0.83; 95% CI: 0.76, 0.92), problem-solving (OR = 0.89; 95% CI: 0.83, 0.96) and personal-social (OR = 0.86; 95% CI: 0.72, 0.92) domains compared to children with “never” family dog ownership. Furthermore, a significantly decreased risk of developmental delay in gross motor function was observed in association with living with dogs in the “past only” (OR = 0.83; 95% CI: 0.73, 0.95) and “always” (OR = 0.86; 95% CI: 0.75, 0.98). In addition, a decreased risk of developmental delay in the problem-solving domain was associated with “past” family dog ownership (OR = 0.87; 95% CI: 0.79, 0.97) and in the personal-social domain was associated with “always” family dog ownership (OR = 0.81; 95% CI = 0.68, 0.95). Given the possible positive association between early life child development and family dog ownership, living with dogs may be an important factor to be considered when assessing child development.
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spelling pubmed-82958542021-07-23 Association between Early Life Child Development and Family Dog Ownership: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study Minatoya, Machiko Ikeda-Araki, Atsuko Miyashita, Chihiro Itoh, Sachiko Kobayashi, Sumitaka Yamazaki, Keiko Ait Bamai, Yu Saijo, Yasuaki Sato, Yukihiro Ito, Yoshiya Kishi, Reiko Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Pets may play a role in the social-emotional development of children. In particular, some studies have suggested that family dog ownership is associated with better health outcomes. To date, no study has assessed child development in association with dog ownership of different time points. The purpose of the current study was primary to investigate whether “ever” family dog ownership was associated with early child development, and secondary to further examine whether associations between family dog ownership and early child development differ among family dog ownership of status, including “past only”, “current only”, and “always” groups, using the data of family dog ownership obtained at multiple time points. Associations between family dog ownership and infant development at 3 years of age were examined using data from a nationwide prospective birth cohort study, the Japan Environment and Children’s Study (n = 78,941). “Ever” family dog ownership was categorized to “past only”, “current only”, and “always”. We observed that children with “ever” family dog ownership showed a significantly decreased risk of developmental delay in the communication (odds ratio [OR] = 0.87; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.78, 0.96), gross motor (OR = 0.83; 95% CI: 0.76, 0.92), problem-solving (OR = 0.89; 95% CI: 0.83, 0.96) and personal-social (OR = 0.86; 95% CI: 0.72, 0.92) domains compared to children with “never” family dog ownership. Furthermore, a significantly decreased risk of developmental delay in gross motor function was observed in association with living with dogs in the “past only” (OR = 0.83; 95% CI: 0.73, 0.95) and “always” (OR = 0.86; 95% CI: 0.75, 0.98). In addition, a decreased risk of developmental delay in the problem-solving domain was associated with “past” family dog ownership (OR = 0.87; 95% CI: 0.79, 0.97) and in the personal-social domain was associated with “always” family dog ownership (OR = 0.81; 95% CI = 0.68, 0.95). Given the possible positive association between early life child development and family dog ownership, living with dogs may be an important factor to be considered when assessing child development. MDPI 2021-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8295854/ /pubmed/34281019 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18137082 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Minatoya, Machiko
Ikeda-Araki, Atsuko
Miyashita, Chihiro
Itoh, Sachiko
Kobayashi, Sumitaka
Yamazaki, Keiko
Ait Bamai, Yu
Saijo, Yasuaki
Sato, Yukihiro
Ito, Yoshiya
Kishi, Reiko
Association between Early Life Child Development and Family Dog Ownership: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study
title Association between Early Life Child Development and Family Dog Ownership: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study
title_full Association between Early Life Child Development and Family Dog Ownership: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study
title_fullStr Association between Early Life Child Development and Family Dog Ownership: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study
title_full_unstemmed Association between Early Life Child Development and Family Dog Ownership: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study
title_short Association between Early Life Child Development and Family Dog Ownership: A Prospective Birth Cohort Study of the Japan Environment and Children’s Study
title_sort association between early life child development and family dog ownership: a prospective birth cohort study of the japan environment and children’s study
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8295854/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34281019
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18137082
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