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Anxiety Assessment

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Anxiety assessment is the systematic determination of whether a companion animal is anxious, how severe that state is, and which situations elicit it. Its evidence base is twofold: owner-completed instruments validated for dogs and cats convert descriptions of everyday behaviour into quantitative scores for fear- and anxiety-related traits such as stranger-directed fear and separation-related behaviour, capturing relatively stable predispositions rather than momentary state [1][2], while salivary cortisol provides a non-invasive index of adrenocortical activity, although between-individual and between-occasion variation limits the interpretation of single samples [3]. Assessment must also separate anxiety from fear and phobia and identify the eliciting context, such as separation or noise [4].

anxiety assessment owner-completed questionnaire salivary cortisol adrenocortical activity fear and phobia
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  1. Yuying Hsu; James A. Serpell; Development and validation of a questionnaire for measuring behavior and temperament traits in pet dogs. J. Am. Vet. Med. Assoc. 2003, 223, 1293-1300. [CrossRef]
  2. Deborah L. Duffy; Roseana T. Diniz de Moura; James A. Serpell; Development and evaluation of the Fe-BARQ: A new survey instrument for measuring behavior in domestic cats (Felis s. catus). Behav. Process. 2017, 141, 329-341. [CrossRef]
  3. A.J Kobelt; P.H Hemsworth; J.L Barnett; K.L Butler; Sources of sampling variation in saliva cortisol in dogs. Res. Vet. Sci. 2003, 75, 157-161. [CrossRef]
  4. Barbara L. Sherman; Daniel S. Mills; Canine Anxieties and Phobias: An Update on Separation Anxiety and Noise Aversions. Vet. Clin. North Am. Small Anim. Pract. 2008, 38, 1081-1106. [CrossRef]
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