Benefits of maternally-administered infant massage for mothers of hospitalized preterm infants: a scoping review

Table 3 Overall evidence of the effect of infant massage intervention (short-term)

First author, year	Anxiety		Perceived Stress		Depressive Symptoms
	Outcome Measure	Effect Size^a	Outcome Measure	Effect Size^a	Outcome Measure	Effect Size^a
Afand et al. 2017 [22]	STAI	0.125
Feijo et al. 2006 [23]	STAI	0.113			POMS	-0.026
Lotfalipour et al. 2019 [28]					POMS	0.928
Matricardi et al. 2013^b [19]			PSS:NICU, SS PSS:NICU, IBA PSS:NICU, PRA	0.63667 0.2975 1.1537
Pineda et al. 2021 [11]	STAI, State subscale	0.015	PSI PSS:NICU	0.007 0.48480931	EPDS	0.019
Pineda et al. 2020 [29]	STAI, State subscale	0.014	PSS:NICU, PRA PSS	0 0.0122	EPDS	0.059

STAI State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, POMS Profile of Mood States, PSS:NICU Parental Stress Scale:Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, SS Sights and Sounds subscale, IBA Infant Behavior and Appearance subscale, PRA Parental Role Alteration subscale, PSS Parental Stress Scale, EPDS Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale
^asmall (d ≤ 0.2), moderate (d ≤ 0.5), or large (d ≥ 0.80) effect sizes based on Cohen’s d
^bReporting scores for mothers only, not fathers included in this study

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