Jump 2006.

Methods	RCT.
Participants	LHW:  Volunteers who were members of staff at orphanages. TRAINING: Were trained in infant massage by PHD level certified instructor, but there is no indication how long training lasted. PARTICIPANTS:  Were about 10month old infants, entered into orphanage at 2‐3months, most were females. TOTAL: 37 children; INTERVENTIONS: 17 children; CONTROL= 20 children.
Interventions	OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether therapeutic infant massage could reduce diarrhoeal episodes and decrease overall illnesses of infants. CONTROL: standard care at orphanage, no intervention. MODE OF DELIVERY: Supervised and took care of daily needs of infants in orphanage. As part of the intervention, they gave infants full body massage. RECIPIENT INVOLVEMENT IN SELECTION/TRAINING/MANAGEMENT: None. GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING: Urban Formal, Ecuador HEALTHCARE SETTING: Institution ‐ Orphanage.
Outcomes	HEALTH STATUS AND WELLBEING: Incidence rate of diarrhoea, Incidence rate of any illness. LENGTH OF FOLLOW UP: 53 days.
Notes
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Adequate sequence generation?	Unclear risk	After matching children by age, randomly assigned them to intervention or control groups. No details how this was done.
Allocation concealment?	Unclear risk	Not mentioned.
Blinding? All outcomes	High risk	Orphanage staff were not blinded, delivered the intervention as well as data on the outcome.
Incomplete outcome data addressed? All outcomes	High risk	71% follow‐up rate. Followed children for only 53 days.