Comparison between the Canine Behavioral Assessment and Research Questionnaire and Monash Canine Personality Questionnaire – Revised to predict training outcome in apprentice assistance dogs

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dc.contributor.authorMarcato, Marinaraen
dc.contributor.authorTedesco, Salvatoreen
dc.contributor.authorO'Mahony, Conoren
dc.contributor.authorO'Flynn, Brendanen
dc.contributor.authorGalvin, Paulen
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Regional Development Funden
dc.contributor.funderInterregen
dc.contributor.funderScience Foundation Irelanden
dc.contributor.funderDepartment of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Irelanden
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-13T10:37:53Z
dc.date.available2024-03-13T10:37:53Z
dc.date.issued2023-10-18en
dc.description.abstractRatings of canine behaviour and personality are a convenient method used by dog training organisations to gather information about prospective and trainee dogs. The objective of this study was to compare the use of two rating questionnaires to predict training outcomes in assistance dogs. It was of interest to investigate the predictive power of a questionnaire answered by the dog trainer in case no puppy raiser questionnaire was available. Two standardised ratings were used, in particular, the Canine Behavioral Assessment and Research Questionnaire (C-BARQ) was completed by puppy raisers around the time the dogs started formal training and the Monash Canine Personality Questionnaire - Revised (MCPQ-R) was completed by dog trainers at ten weeks of training. Rating data were independently analysed to investigate their relationship with training outcomes. The results from the univariate logistic regression analysis were used to select the variables for the reduced feature sets that were used for modelling. The novel machine learning models built with data collected using the C-BARQ and MCPQ-R achieved similar performance in predicting training outcomes, an area under the ROC curve of 0.84 and 0.85, respectively. The novel models developed in this research were the most effective early prediction of suitability for assistance work compared to previously reported studies. The MCPQ-R was demonstrated for the first time to be a reliable canine behavioural assessment method for estimating future outcomes in trainee dogs. The dataset and code used are publicly available on GitHub: https://github.com/mmarcato/dog_questionnaireen
dc.description.sponsorshipEuropean Regional Development Fund (ERDF through the Ireland-Wales INTERREG Programme under the Celtic Advanced Life Science Innovation Network (CALIN) project [grant number 80885]); Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) [grant number 12/RC/2289-P2] which is co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund; from SFI and the Irish Department of Agriculture, Food and Marine [grant number 16/RC/3835].en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
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dc.identifier.articleid106086en
dc.identifier.citationMarcato, M., Tedesco, S., O’Mahony, C., O’Flynn, B. and Galvin, P. (2023) ‘Comparison between the Canine Behavioral Assessment and Research Questionnaire and Monash Canine Personality Questionnaire – Revised to predict training outcome in apprentice assistance dogs’, Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 269, 106086 (15 pp). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2023.106086en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2023.106086en
dc.identifier.endpage15en
dc.identifier.issn0168-1591en
dc.identifier.journaltitleApplied Animal Behaviour Scienceen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/15664
dc.identifier.volume269en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElsevieren
dc.relation.ispartofApplied Animal Behaviour Scienceen
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Research Centres Programme::Phase 2/12/RC/2289-P2s/IE/INSIGHT Phase 2/en
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Research Centres/12/RC/2289/IE/INSIGHT - Irelands Big Data and Analytics Research Centre/en
dc.relation.projectinfo:eu-repo/grantAgreement/SFI/SFI Research Centres Programme::Phase 1/16/RC/3835/IE/VistaMilk Centre/en
dc.relation.urihttps://github.com/mmarcato/dog_questionnaireen
dc.rights© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectAssistance dogsen
dc.subjectTraining outcome predictionen
dc.subjectC-BARQen
dc.subjectMCPQ-Ren
dc.subjectDog questionnairesen
dc.titleComparison between the Canine Behavioral Assessment and Research Questionnaire and Monash Canine Personality Questionnaire – Revised to predict training outcome in apprentice assistance dogsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
oaire.citation.volume269en
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