Do You Agree That Having

Animals Has A Benefit on Your

Mental Health?

Group 5: Caitlin Morrow, Haylee Thiel, and Damien Celaya

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Why this topic?
There’s no doubt animals have been proven to

be useful in medical scenarios (ex: epilepsy), but the

debate on whether they really can benefit someone

mentally and emotionally still is being studied. Our

survey went out to get the opinions of students here

at ASU on whether or not animals can be beneficial

more than just medically.

 Our Survey

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iavscgUWwO6atM
8yX1Br5thRfG7ccI_q7b5M4g2VhSc/edit?usp=sharing
Our Data
 Senior Graduates

Junior

Sophomore
Freshman
Freshman

Freshman

Sophomore Sophomore

Junior
Junior Senior
Senior
Grad Grad
Maybe

No

Yes
What does this mean?
After conducting our research and using a survey

to receive our results we can see that the majority of the

population surveyed are 19 years old, believed animals

were a beneficial treatment, the animal needed training,

and that they could relieve stress. The vote was almost

split for if the population had or knew someone with a

service animal but the popular vote was yes.

Overall, our results show that animals DO

have a benefit on your mental health.

Errors/Limitations
Our data was responded to by only a small

selected population primarily freshman. If we were to

conduct our research again we should’ve used the same

number of females vs males as well as an equal amount

from each class (F, SO, J, SE). This would have

provided us with a more reliable and unbiased

population count. Or we could’ve reworded our question

to focus only on a more narrow population (freshmen).

For groups like the graduates, their opinion wasn’t really

accounted for as far as our research showed.

Conclusio
n
In conclusion, since we know animals can benefit

mental health, we could use this information to further

research into how and in what ways can animals be

used for treatments for depression, PTSD, anxiety,

bipolar disorder, etc.

Works Cited
Oda, Kathryn. “How a Dog Helped Me Manage My Anxiety and Depression.” The Huffington Post, TheHuffingtonPost.com, 7 Dec.
2017, www.huffingtonpost.com/kathryn-oda/how-a-dog-helped-me-manag_b_9301622.html.