Modrcin-McCarthy provided a similar gentle touch
intervention to 10 infants (27 to 32 weeks of GA) for
20 minutes daily for 10 days. Like Harrison and colleagues,
Modrcin-McCarthy found that infants had less
motor activity and behavioral distress and more quiet sleep
during touch, compared with baseline periods. However,
there were no differences between the 10 group E infants
and 10 infants in a randomly assigned group C on outcome
variables including use of supplemental oxygen, weight
gain, or number of blood transfusions.