Table 2.

Comparison of mean duration of phototherapy and hospitalization in three studied groups

Groups variable	KMC	Field Massage	Control	p-value
Hospital stay (hours)	*82.93±3.53	*81.47±3.56	95.57±8.28	<0.001
Phototherapy duration (hours)	*75.13±2.33	*74.43±2.58	84.83±5.44	<0.001

The values inside the table are mean ± standard deviation in the different studied groups.

The * sign indicates a significant difference between control and other groups at a significant level of 0.05 on the basis of the post-hoc Tukey test.