Naturalistic study of the joint presence of headache and pets

Pet Therapy is our first choice intervention for the therapy of children’s headache, since in the majority of children in growing up age headache is often linked to a situation of psycho-social discomfort [1]. On the basis of several works, which had found that just the simple presence of pets was an improvement factor of the physical conditions of several patients [2,3], we wanted to ascertain whether also the simple presence of pets (mammals) could be related to the development of childhood headache.