The Effect of Massage on Body Weight Improvement in 0 - 12 Month-Old Babies
- DOI
- 10.2991/hsic-17.2017.24How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Massage, Baby Weight Improvement, Baby 0-12 months old
- Abstract
Massage had widely known asa solution to facilitate baby growth and development which impact on optimizing blood flow, normalizing heart rate, maintaining digestion, and improving immunity. Massage intervention will preserve the adequate nutrition by increasing the absorption of macronutrient and micronutrient by stabilizing basal metabolism and induce the insulin and adrenalin secretion and prevent the cortisol secretion. Objectives: The purpose of the study had identified the effect of massage intervention towards baby weight enhancement in the first year of baby's life. Method: A quasi-experimental study with total sampling. A total of 83 babies demographic data had assessed by completing body weight measurement before and after the massage intervention.The moderate and light pressure massage had applied during 15 minutes baby massage intervention once a week in one month. Descriptive statistics and independent T-test had used for analyzing the data. Results: The results had provided the basic data related to baby weight enhancement before and after baby massage intervention. The weight enhancement result had surpassed the minimum standard of weight gain in one month. Conclusion: this result had supported the evidence-based practice in assisting the baby mothers to provide baby massage regularly during the first year of baby's life.
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- © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Juwitasari Juwitasari AU - Dessy Rindiyanti Harista PY - 2017/10 DA - 2017/10 TI - The Effect of Massage on Body Weight Improvement in 0 - 12 Month-Old Babies BT - Proceedings of the Health Science International Conference (HSIC 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 157 EP - 161 SN - 2468-5739 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/hsic-17.2017.24 DO - 10.2991/hsic-17.2017.24 ID - Juwitasari2017/10 ER -