Short- and long-term effects of tactile massage on salivary cortisol concentrations in Parkinson’s disease: a randomised controlled pilot study

Table 4 Area under the Curve (AUC) for short-term effects, before to 0 minutes after intervention

	Group	AUC screening ¹	AUC intervention ²	p-value³
First intervention	RTM	553 (175-1118)	350 (143-1271)	0.249
	TM	571 (219-1226)	456 (189-954)	0.153
Eighth intervention	RTM	563 (188-1117)	338 (173-1030)	0.035*
	TM	525 (242-1215)	352 (221-656)	0.003*

1 AUC estimated according to individual intervention time for start and duration in minutes based on linear equation for daily AUC at screening. Median (10th and 90th perc).
2 AUC according to intervention duration and salivary concentration at start, 0 min after and 30 min after. Median (10th and 90th perc).
3 AUC intervention compared to AUC screening, Wilcoxon’s test for paired data.
*Statistically significant difference.

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