Extensive research has been done throughout the years and even decades on noise phobia therapy, desensitization and habituation, to prove its effectiveness to prevent or cure these problems in pets and animals (horses for instance). This is for instance mentioned here, where it says "Desensitization and habituation methods have been widely studied (Watts, 1971; Watts, 1979 & Lader, 1968) and are proven to be effective in the management of behavioral problems in animals.".

WeStopFear is basically a noise phobia therapy, and the animal has a similar experience from WeStopFear and other conventional solutions that have been available before. The difference is in the Natural Intervals that add silences of random length between the therapy noises, to make the process more natural and more bearable, (in real life, these noises don't appear in a constant succession, one after the other, and therefore the Natural Intervals were developed to better imitate reality).

The WeStopFear solution, i.e. the structural innovations in the process design, or the steps that users need to implement to deliver the noise phobia therapy to the animal, has not been clinically tested. The innovations are mostly based on logical thinking and common sense, as is described above.

The purpose of the innovation is to create a therapy process that has the goal to be simpler, easier and safer for the human handler. What the petior horse experiences isn’t different from previous therapy process designs, (except for the silences, the Natural Intervals, after each sound described above). This means that WeStopFear should not be better nor worse than pervious solutions.

It would be interesting to have the method tested by professionals or scientists. Results from such tests will surely be posted here on the website if and when that happens.

However, here it is necessary to understand what should be tested and what not. For instance, the sound files themselves that are used here are not a fixed part of the system. If someone concludes that a sound file is not of a sufficient quality, then it is easy to remove the sound file and add another one, should a better sound file be available.

What the system is about is largely the organization and process design, how the therapy process is conducted, and how sound files with different inherent loudness or volume level are prepared and made available successively during the process, i.e. where the handler has access to very low loudness levels at the start, and has access to full loudness levels only after some time has passed, and the handler has gone through the first steps where lower loudness levels are available.

Also, the success level of doing this is based on various factors, as you can read more about in the FAQ item above "Is 100% success certain?"

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