@article{e9c3d469f0894f34b251f95ac2db5c4b,
title = "Mothers' depressed mood and anxiety levels are reduced after massaging their preterm infants",
abstract = "Forty mothers whose preterm infants were about to be discharged from the Neonatal Intermediate Care Nursery (NICU) were randomly assigned to two groups: the first group of mothers conducted preterm infant massage and the second group only observed their preterm infants receiving massage. Both groups of mothers had lower depressed mood scores following the session. However, only the group who massaged their infants had lower anxiety scores after the session.",
keywords = "Anxiety, Depression, Massage, Mothers, Preterm infants",
author = "Larissa Feij{\'o} and Maria Hernandez-Reif and Tiffany Field and William Burns and Sarah Valley-Gray and Edward Simco",
note = "Funding Information: We thank the mothers and infants who participated in this study. We also thank Karla Gil, Yanexy Vera and Wendy Cisneros for their assistance with recruitment and data collection. This research was supported by an NIMH Senior Research Scientist Award (#MH00331) and an NIMH Merit Award (#MH46586) to Tiffany Field, an NIH/NCCAM grant (AT 000370) to Maria Hernandez-Reif and funding from Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute to the Touch Research Institutes. ",
year = "2006",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1016/j.infbeh.2006.02.003",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "29",
pages = "476--480",
journal = "Infant Behavior and Development",
issn = "0163-6383",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
number = "3",
}