Table 4. Research trend according to research method

Research method Distribution and trend by year Summation (%)
2000–2005 2006–2010 2011–2015 2016–2020 2021–2022
Intervention types Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) 9 12 5 26 (38)
Animal-assisted intervention (AAI) 6 6 2 14 (21)
Animal-assisted activity (AAA) 1 4 8 13 (19)
Animal-assisted education (AAE) 1 4 1 6 (9)
Others 1 4 4 9 (13)
Designing Single experiment pretest-posttest 6 12 4 22 (32)
Group-control pretest-posttest 1 6 12 8 27 (40)
Case Study & Pre and Post-test parallel 8 10 18 (26)
Others 1 1 (2)
Intervention object Infants and young children 1 1 2 (3)
Children and adolescents 1 1 10 23 5 40 (59)
Female 1 1 (1.5)
Adult 1 1 (1.5)
Old people 2 3 2 7 (10)
Disabled person 6 7 2 15 (22)
Others 2 2 (3)
Follow-up test Yes 2 1 3 (4)
No 1 1 18 34 11 65 (96)