Do Massage and Relaxation Music Therapy Increase Breast Milk Volume? A Meta-Analysis

[摘要] Background: Breast milk contains various nutrients that meet the needs of infants’ growth anddevelopment. Furthermore, breast milk also contains various antibodies that will protect infantsfrom viruses and bacteria to avoid infections and various diseases. Various conditions encounteredby postpartum mothers often lead to stress and anxiety that generate a low milk supply, thus theinfants do not get breast milk optimally. This study aims to discover the effect of massage andrelaxation music therapy on breast milk volume.Subjects and Method: The study used systematic review and meta-analysis using the PICOmodel. Population= postpartum mother, Intervention= massage and relaxation music therapy,Comparison= no massage and relaxation music therapy, and Outcome= breast milk volume. Articlesearch was conducted in various databases, namely PubMed, BMC, ScienceDirect, ResearchGate,SpringerLink, and NCBI. The articles were collected in 1 month. The articles were published from2012-2022. The keywords in this article search were "Massage AND Lactation" OR "Massage ANDMilk Production" AND "Music AND Milk Production" OR "Relaxation AND Breastfeeding" AND"Randomized Controlled Trial". The inclusion criteria were full-text articles with an RCT studydesign, the correlation size used was mean and SD, and the articles were in English. The articleswere analyzed using the RevMan 5.3 application.Results: This study used 14 articles with sample populations from China, India, Indonesia, theUnited Kingdom, Iran, Malaysia, Thailand, and Turkey. The administration of massage had apositive effect 1.42 times more effective on the increase of breast milk volume compared to withoutmassage (SMD= 1.42; CI 95%= 0.98 to 1.86; p<0.001). Relaxation music therapy can increasebreast milk volume by 0.46 times compared to without relaxation music therapy (SMD= 0.46; 95%CI= 0.31 to 0.60; p<0.001).Conclusion: Massage and relaxation music therapy have a positive effect on the increase of breastmilk volume.

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[关键词] massage;relaxation music therapy;breast milk volume;postpartum