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Paediatric massage for treatment of acute diarrhoea in children: a meta-analysis

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, September 2018
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Title
Paediatric massage for treatment of acute diarrhoea in children: a meta-analysis
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BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, September 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12906-018-2324-4
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Li Gao, Chunhua Jia, Huiwen Huang

Abstract

Massage therapy has been used by many traditional Chinese medicine physicians to treat acute diarrhoea in children. Since no relevant systematic reviews assessed the clinical effectiveness or the risk of massage therapy, in this study, a meta-analysis was conducted to evaluate the efficacy of paediatric massage for the treatment of acute diarrhoea in children. In this meta-analysis, paediatric patients who were diagnosed with acute diarrhoea were included. Interventions using massage therapy alone or combined with other non-pharmacological approaches were included, while in the control groups, patients received pharmacotherapy. The primary outcome was clinical effective rate. Seven databases were used in our research, and the following search terms were used: (massage OR tui na OR manipulation OR acupressure) AND (infant OR child OR baby OR paediatrics) AND (diarrhoea OR diarrhoea) AND (randomized controlled trial). The search date was up to April 30, 2018. A total of 26 studies encompassing 2644 patients were included in this meta-analysis. It was shown that paediatric massage was significantly better than pharmacotherapy in treating acute diarrhoea in children in terms of clinical effective rate (n = 2213, RR = 1.20, 95% CI: 1.14 to 1.27), clinical cure rate (n = 345, RR = 1.37, 95% CI: 1.19 to 1.57), and cure time (n = 513, MD = - 0.77, 95% CI: -0.89 to - 0.64). However, the quality of evidence for this finding was low due to high risk of bias of the included studies. The present work supported paediatric massage in treating acute diarrhoea in children. More well-designed randomized controlled trials are still needed to further evaluate the efficacy of paediatric massage.

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Unknown 84 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 12 14%
Student > Master 7 8%
Lecturer 7 8%
Other 5 6%
Student > Postgraduate 5 6%
Other 14 17%
Unknown 34 40%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 19 23%
Medicine and Dentistry 15 18%
Unspecified 2 2%
Psychology 2 2%
Engineering 2 2%
Other 7 8%
Unknown 37 44%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 December 2020.
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#4
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