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

Table 5 Area under the Curve (AUC) for short-term effects, before to 30 minutes after Intervention

	Group	AUC screening ¹	AUC intervention ²	p-value³
First intervention	RTM	875 (292-1641)	582 (255-1939)	0.158
	TM	918 (337-1752)	662 (267-1366)	0.076
Eighth intervention	RTM	870 (315-1686)	562 (262-1614)	0.087
	TM	883 (373-1783)	491 (303-854)	0.004*

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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