Pachana Nancy A, Ford Jessica H, Andrew Brooke, Dobson Annette J
School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Int J Behav Med. 2005;12(2):103-10. doi: 10.1207/s15327558ijbm1202_8.
A large longitudinal dataset on women's health in Australia provided the basis of analysis of potential positive health effects of living with a companion animal. Age, living arrangements, and housing all strongly related to both living with companion animals and health. Methodological problems in using data from observational studies to disentangle a potential association in the presence of substantial effects of demographic characteristics are highlighted. Our findings may help to explain some inconsistencies and contradictions in the literature about the health benefits of companion animals, as well as offer suggestions for ways to move forward in future investigations of human-pet relationships.
澳大利亚一个关于女性健康的大型纵向数据集为分析与伴侣动物共同生活对健康的潜在积极影响提供了基础。年龄、生活安排和住房情况都与是否与伴侣动物共同生活以及健康状况密切相关。文中强调了在存在人口统计学特征显著影响的情况下，使用观察性研究数据来理清潜在关联时所存在的方法学问题。我们的研究结果可能有助于解释文献中关于伴侣动物对健康有益的一些不一致和矛盾之处，同时也为未来人类与宠物关系的研究提供前进方向的建议。
