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Pets for pediatric transplant recipients: To have or not to have
Pets have many health, emotional and social benefits for children, but the risk of zoonotic infections cannot be underestimated, especially for immunosuppressed patients. We report the recommendations given by health professionals working with pediatric transplant recipients to their families regard...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9493113/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36157192 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.974665 |
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author | Platero, Lucía Garcia-Sanchez, Paula Sainz, Talía Calvo, Cristina Iglesias, Irene Esperon, Fernando de la Fuente, Ricardo Frauca, Esteban Perez-Martinez, Antonio Mendez-Echevarria, Ana |
author_facet | Platero, Lucía Garcia-Sanchez, Paula Sainz, Talía Calvo, Cristina Iglesias, Irene Esperon, Fernando de la Fuente, Ricardo Frauca, Esteban Perez-Martinez, Antonio Mendez-Echevarria, Ana |
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description | Pets have many health, emotional and social benefits for children, but the risk of zoonotic infections cannot be underestimated, especially for immunosuppressed patients. We report the recommendations given by health professionals working with pediatric transplant recipients to their families regarding pet ownership. An online survey addressing zoonosis knowledge and recommendations provided by health care practitioners regarding pets was distributed to clinicians treating pediatric transplant recipients. The European Society of Pediatric Infectious Disease (ESPID) and the European Reference Network ERN-TransplantChild, which works to improve the quality of life of transplanted children, allowed the online distribution of the survey. A total of 151 practitioners from 28 countries participated in the survey. Up to 29% of the respondents had treated at least one case of zoonosis. Overall, 58% of the respondents considered that the current available evidence regarding zoonotic risk for transplanted children of having a pet is too scarce. In addition, up to 23% of the surveyed professionals recognized to be unaware or outdated. Still, 27% of the respondents would advise against buying a pet. Practitioners already owning a pet less frequently advised patients against pet ownership, whereas non-pet-owners were more keen to advise against pet ownership (p = 0.058). 61% of the participants stated that there were no institutional recommendations regarding pets in their centers/units. However, 43% of them reported therapeutic initiatives that involved animals in their centers. Infectious disease specialists were more likely to identify zoonotic agents among a list of pathogens compared to other specialists (p < 0.05). We have observed a huge heterogeneity among the recommendations that health care providers offer to families in terms of risk related to pet ownership for transplant recipients. The lack of evidence regarding these recommendations results in practitioners' recommendations based on personal experience. |
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spelling | pubmed-94931132022-09-23 Pets for pediatric transplant recipients: To have or not to have Platero, Lucía Garcia-Sanchez, Paula Sainz, Talía Calvo, Cristina Iglesias, Irene Esperon, Fernando de la Fuente, Ricardo Frauca, Esteban Perez-Martinez, Antonio Mendez-Echevarria, Ana Front Vet Sci Veterinary Science Pets have many health, emotional and social benefits for children, but the risk of zoonotic infections cannot be underestimated, especially for immunosuppressed patients. We report the recommendations given by health professionals working with pediatric transplant recipients to their families regarding pet ownership. An online survey addressing zoonosis knowledge and recommendations provided by health care practitioners regarding pets was distributed to clinicians treating pediatric transplant recipients. The European Society of Pediatric Infectious Disease (ESPID) and the European Reference Network ERN-TransplantChild, which works to improve the quality of life of transplanted children, allowed the online distribution of the survey. A total of 151 practitioners from 28 countries participated in the survey. Up to 29% of the respondents had treated at least one case of zoonosis. Overall, 58% of the respondents considered that the current available evidence regarding zoonotic risk for transplanted children of having a pet is too scarce. In addition, up to 23% of the surveyed professionals recognized to be unaware or outdated. Still, 27% of the respondents would advise against buying a pet. Practitioners already owning a pet less frequently advised patients against pet ownership, whereas non-pet-owners were more keen to advise against pet ownership (p = 0.058). 61% of the participants stated that there were no institutional recommendations regarding pets in their centers/units. However, 43% of them reported therapeutic initiatives that involved animals in their centers. Infectious disease specialists were more likely to identify zoonotic agents among a list of pathogens compared to other specialists (p < 0.05). We have observed a huge heterogeneity among the recommendations that health care providers offer to families in terms of risk related to pet ownership for transplant recipients. The lack of evidence regarding these recommendations results in practitioners' recommendations based on personal experience. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9493113/ /pubmed/36157192 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.974665 Text en Copyright © 2022 Platero, Garcia-Sanchez, Sainz, Calvo, Iglesias, Esperon, de la Fuente, Frauca, Perez-Martinez and Mendez-Echevarria. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Veterinary Science Platero, Lucía Garcia-Sanchez, Paula Sainz, Talía Calvo, Cristina Iglesias, Irene Esperon, Fernando de la Fuente, Ricardo Frauca, Esteban Perez-Martinez, Antonio Mendez-Echevarria, Ana Pets for pediatric transplant recipients: To have or not to have |
title | Pets for pediatric transplant recipients: To have or not to have |
title_full | Pets for pediatric transplant recipients: To have or not to have |
title_fullStr | Pets for pediatric transplant recipients: To have or not to have |
title_full_unstemmed | Pets for pediatric transplant recipients: To have or not to have |
title_short | Pets for pediatric transplant recipients: To have or not to have |
title_sort | pets for pediatric transplant recipients: to have or not to have |
topic | Veterinary Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9493113/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36157192 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.974665 |
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