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 4

Treatment effects for QST massage (repeated measures Anova/Manova).

Variable	Group main intervention effect
		(Degrees of freedom)
Univariate analysis
Stress	17.2	(1,82)	.00008	.173	Large
Receptive language; (PLS-5 auditory)	4.81	(1,82)	.031	.055	Medium
Expressive language; (PLS-5 expressive)	0.18	(1,82)	.667	.002	Small
Multivariate analyses
Severity	5.17	(2,81)	.008	.113	Medium-large
Post-hoc
ABC	8.11	(1,82)	.006	.090
CARS	3.34	(1,82)	.071	.039
Sensory and self-regulation	7.40	(3,80)	.00002	.217	Large
Post-hoc
Sensory	15.16	(1,82)	.00002	.156
Tactile/oral	14.92	(1,82)	.00002	.154
Self-regulation	17.92	(1,82)	.00006	.179
General development	0.42	(2,81)	.656	.010	Small
Post-hoc
Vineland daily living; skills; Vineland socialization	No post-hoc analyses