CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 317Infant Development and Preterm CareInfant Health and DevelopmentInfant Nutrition and Health

The DOI matches its Crossref record; 41 of the 41 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.

Preterm infant massage therapy research: A review

Open access
Field, Tiffany, Diego, Miguel, Hernandez-Reif, Maria·2010·Infant Behavior and Development
DOI 10.1016/j.infbeh.2009.12.004PMC PMC2844909
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

In this paper, preterm infant massage therapy studies are reviewed. Massage therapy has led to weight gain in preterm infants when moderate pressure massage was provided. In studies on passive movement of the limbs, preterm infants also gained significantly more weight, and their bone density also increased. Research on ways of delivering the massage is also explored including using mothers versus therapists and the added effects of using oils. The use of mothers as therapists was effective in at least one study. The use of oils including coconut oil and safflower oil enhanced the average weight gain, and the transcutaneous absorption of oil also increased triglycerides. In addition, the use of synthetic oil increased vagal activity, which may indirectly contribute to weight gain. The weight gain was associated with shorter hospital stays and, thereby, significant hospital cost savings. Despite these benefits, preterm infant massage is only practiced in 38% of neonatal intensive care units. This may relate to the underlying mechanisms not being well understood. The increases noted in vagal activity, gastric motility, insulin and IGF-1 levels following moderate pressure massage are potential underlying mechanisms. However, those variables combined do not explain all of the variance in weight gain, highlighting the need for additional mechanism studies.

Overview

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.infbeh.2009.12.004

Cites

41 of 41 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Verification

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Citations

Cites

Show all 41 references

Research works printed but not linked: 11

  1. Duan, 2002, Studying impact of touching on growth and development of infants, Chinese Nursing Research, 16, 5
  2. Field, 1996, Massage with oil has more positive effects on newborn infants, Pre and Perinatal Psychology Journal, 11, 73
  3. Ke, 2001, Clinical survey of improved massage method developing infants’ growth and development, China Nurse, 36, 278
  4. Liu, 2005, The effect of touching on healthy infants’ weight, Journal of Huaihai Medicine, 23, 137
  5. Liu, 2005, Clinical experience in infant massage: 100 case studies, Chongqing Medicine, 34, 301
  6. Lu, 2005, A study of the effect of touch on health in infants, Practical Clinical Medicine, 6, 119
  7. Myburgh, 1998, Exercise and peak bone mass: An update, South African Journal of Sports Medicine, 5, 3
  8. Na, 2005, The effect of infant massage on growth, New Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 37, 69
  9. Shi, 2002, The clinical observation of touching towards the neonatal health's affection, Journal of Henan University, 21, 26
  10. Sun, 2004, A comparative study on influence of touching on growth, development and jaundice of normal infants, Chinese Nursing Research, 18, 1468
  11. Zhai, 2001, The effect of massage on growth: A clinical study, Journal of Sichuan continuing Education College of Public Health and Managerial Sciences, 20, 23

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Items 201–300 of 317

Related

See all

Metadata

Authors
Field, T., Diego, M., & Hernandez-Reif, M.
Affiliations
University of Miami (US)
Corresponding author
Field, Tiffany
ORCID
Field, Tiffany
Venue
Infant Behavior and Development
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2010-04
Volume
33
Issue
2
Pages
115-124
ISSN
0163-6383 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.infbeh.2009.12.004
PMC
PMC2844909
OpenAlex
W2013619762
Cited by
317
References
41
Citations by year
2026: 11 · 2025: 51 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 25 · 2018: 13 · 2017: 21 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 20 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 17 · 2012: 21
FWCI
2.55
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Infant Behavior and Development (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Johnson and Johnson
  • National Institute of Mental Health (MH#46586, K05MH000331, MH-00331, R37MH046586)
  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (AT 01585, K05AT001585)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Infant Development and Preterm Care
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Infant Health and Development
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Infant Nutrition and Health
Keywords
preterm infants, weight gain, bone mineral density, massage oil, coconut oil, safflower oil, parasympathetic activity, gastric motility, insulin, insulin-like growth factor I, length of hospital stay, neonatal intensive care
MeSH terms
Exercise Therapy, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Massage, Premature Birth

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review