Table 3.

Mean and standard deviation of serum bilirubin levels of hyperbilirubinemia term infants at different times in the studied groups

Groups Time	KMC	Field Massage	Control	*p-value
Base line	16.97±1.27	17.01±1.46	17±1.38	0.635
24 hours after the onset	13.91±1.24ₐ	12.55±1.92ᵇ	15.09±1.55ᶜ	<0.001
48 hours after the onset	10.27±0.96ₐ	9.73±1.24ᵇ	11.73±1.73ᶜ	<0.001
72 hours after the onset	7.75±0.67ₐ	7.44±0.72ₐ	8.58±0.89ᶜ	<0.001
End of phototherapy	5.91±0.52ₐ	5.56±0.48ₐ	6.97±0.47ᶜ	0.004
**p-value (RM)	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001

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

Similar letters in each row indicate no significant difference between each of two groups based on the post-hoc Tukey test at a significant level of 0.05 .

The * sign is related to groups based on ANOVA.

The ** sign illustrates time changes based on the Repeated Measure test .