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Postpartum Massage Therapy for Women and Infants: The Effect on Maternal Depression, Stress, Fatigue and Infant Temperament

NCT06377176 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 102

Last updated 2024-04-22

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Summary

Mother and infant massage, a type of complementary therapy, possesses the capacity to ameliorate maternal depression, stress, fatigue, and also infant temperaments and convert them into more manageable ones. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of mother and infant massage therapy on maternal depression, stress, fatigue, and infant temperament. In this quasi-experimental study, a total of 102 participants were allocated into two groups based on a pretest and posttest. During a period of five weeks, the experimental groups were subjected to ten massages per week, twice every week. On the data, a generalized estimating equation (GEE) was implemented. This study's hypothesis was an improvement in maternal depression, stress, fatigue, and infant temperament.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Massage therapy

the intervention group underwent ten sessions of twice-weekly mother and infant massage therapy for five weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
1 Month
Max Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-06-16
Primary Completion
2021-10-03
Completion
2021-10-03

Countries

  • Indonesia

Study Locations

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