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Nahidi F, Gazerani N, Yousefi P, et al. The Comparison of the Effects of Massaging and Rocking on Infantile Colic. Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res. 2017;22(1):67-71doi: 10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_31_13.
Nahidi, F., Gazerani, N., Yousefi, P., & Abadi, A. R. (2017). The Comparison of the Effects of Massaging and Rocking on Infantile Colic. Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery research, 22(1), 67-71. https://doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_31_13
Nahidi, Fatemah, et al. "The Comparison of the Effects of Massaging and Rocking on Infantile Colic." Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery research vol. 22,1 (2017): 67-71. doi: https://doi.org/10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_31_13
Nahidi F, Gazerani N, Yousefi P, Abadi AR. The Comparison of the Effects of Massaging and Rocking on Infantile Colic. Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res. 2017 Jan-Feb;22(1):67-71. doi: 10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_31_13. PMID: 28382062; PMCID: PMC5364756.
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Iran J Nurs Midwifery Res. 2017 Jan-Feb;22(1):67-71. doi: 10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_31_13.

The Comparison of the Effects of Massaging and Rocking on Infantile Colic.

Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery research

Fatemah Nahidi, Nafiseh Gazerani, Parsa Yousefi, Ali Reza Abadi

Affiliations

  1. Department of Midwifery and Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  2. Department of Midwifery and Reproductive Health, International Branch of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
  3. Department of Pediatrics, Arak University of Medical Sciences, Arak, Iran.
  4. Department of Biostatistics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

PMID: 28382062 PMCID: PMC5364756 DOI: 10.4103/ijnmr.IJNMR_31_13

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Infantile colic is a painful condition in the first months of infancy. This study was carried out with the aim of testing the hypothesis that massage treatment has a clinically relevant effect on this condition.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: This randomized clinical trial was conducted among 100 infants of < 12 weeks of age with infantile colic. They were randomly assigned to either infant massage (

RESULTS: Significant differences were not observed in infant and mother demographic information. Before intervention, the mean of total number, length, and severity of crying were 6.12 (1.76) time/day, 4.97 (1.37) hour/day, and 6.60 (1.54) in the massage group and 6.96 (2.9) time/day, 3 (1.31) hour/day, and 5.98 (2.22) in the rocking group, respectively. After 1 week of intervention, the mean difference of total number, length, and severity of crying were 4.08 (1.83) time/day, 2.81 (1.77) hour/day, and 2.9 (2.37) in the massage group and 0.56 (2.28) time/day, 0.27 (1.09) hour/day, and 0.02 (1.64) in the rocking group, respectively.

CONCLUSIONS: This trial of massage treatment for infantile colic showed statistically significant or clinically relevant effect in comparison with the rocking group.

Keywords: Colic; infant; massage; rocking

Conflict of interest statement

There are no conflicts of interest.

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