| Methods |
RCT, Norway |
| Participants |
32 nurses working at 2 psychiatric hospitals |
| Interventions |
1) Experimental: Full‐body massage: 6 consecutive weekly 90‐minute full‐body aromatherapy massages.
2) Control: No intervention |
| Outcomes |
Cooper's Job Stress Questionnaire |
| Notes |
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| Risk of bias |
| Bias |
Authors' judgement |
Support for judgement |
| Random sequence generation (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
"Thirty‐five subjects registered for the study and were randomised by drawing numbers, to either a treatment group (n = 18) or a control group." (p. 91) |
| Allocation concealment (selection bias) |
Unclear risk |
Not reported. |
| Blinding (performance bias and detection bias)
All outcomes |
High risk |
Not reported, self‐report blinding not possible |
| Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias)
All outcomes |
Unclear risk |
"Three persons dropped out from the control group, two moved to other parts of Norway and one went on vacation" (p. 91) |
| Selective reporting (reporting bias) |
Low risk |
There was only one outcome measure and its results were reported |
| Other bias |
Unclear risk |
We did not find any indications of other sources of bias |
