Early Intervention with a Parent-Delivered Massage Protocol Directed at Tactile Abnormalities Decreases Severity of Autism and Improves Child-to-Parent Interactions: A Replication Study

Table 1

Participant demographics.

	Tx active	Tx dropped	Tx total	Control active	Control dropped	Control total	Total active	Total dropped
Total number	42	13	55	42	6	48	103	19
Gender
Male	36	12	48	39	5	44	92	17
Female	6	1	7	3	1	4	11	2
Race
AI/AN	4	1	5	1	1	2	7	2
Asian	4	0	4	5	0	5	9	0
NH/PI	0	1	1	2	0	2	3	1
Black	1	2	3	3	1	4	6	3
White	40	10	50	39	6	45	95	16
Other	4	2	6	1	0	1	7	2
Ethnicity
Hispanic/Latino	11	4	15	7	2	9	24	6
Not Hisp./Lat.	31	9	40	35	4	39	79	13
Poverty level
100%	9	1	10	9	1	10	20	2
150%	16	3	19	16	1	17	36	4
Did not share	4	3	7	6	0	6	13	3
income level

Tx = treatment.
Tx drop = those participants who were in the treatment group condition that dropped out.
Control drop = those participants who were in the waitlist control group condition that dropped out.
AI/AN = American Indian/Alaska native.
NH/PI = native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander.
Note: parents could select more than one ethnicity/race. So the numbers add up to more than the number of subjects.