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Assessing laboratory animal welfare: the crucial importance of construct validity

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Laboratory Animals: The international journal of laboratory animal science and welfare

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Abstract

Laboratory Animals, Volume 60, Issue 1, Page 13-19, February 2026.
Assessing laboratory animals’ welfare – their current and/or past subjective affective states – is essential for ethical and regulatory reasons (and central to biomedical research into, for example, pain, nausea or anxiety). But this is challenging; and ...