Meta-Analysis the Effect of Baby Massage in Increasing Quality of Sleep and Infant Body Weight

[摘要] Background: Sleep patterns and weight in infants are identified as one of the most importanttopics related to infant growth and development. Baby massage is a slow and gentle stroke movement throughout the baby's body starting from the baby's feet, stomach, chest, face, hands andback. Baby massage is a form of touch stimulation. Babies who are massaged experience anincrease in vagus nerve tone (10th brain nerve) which will lead to increased levels of gastrin andinsulin absorption enzymes. Thus the absorption of food will be better. Therefore, body weight andsleep quality increased more than those who were not massaged.Subjects and Method: This was a systematic review and meta-analysis conducted using PRISMAflow diagrams. Search articles through journal databases including: PubMed, Science Direct,Google Schoolar and SpingerLink by selecting articles published in 2010-2020. The keywords usedwere (“baby massage” OR “infant massage”) AND (“sleep quality” OR “baby sleep quality”) AND(“weight gain” OR “baby weight gain”) AND “randomized controlled trial”. Inclusion criteria werefull paper articles with Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) research methods, the relationshipmeasure used was Mean SD, the intervention given was baby massage, research subjects wereinfants aged 0-3 years. Eligible articles were analyzed using the Revman 5.3 application.Results: A meta-analysis of 16 articles showed that baby massage improved sleep quality (SMD0.70; 95% CI= -0.05 to 1.46; p=0.07). In addition, baby massage increased body weight (SMD0.52; 95% CI= 0.08 to 0.96; p=0.02).Conclusion: Baby Massage has an effect on improving the quality of sleep and baby's weight.

[学科分类] 食品科学和技术

[关键词] baby massage;sleep quality;baby weight gain