1Department of Beauty Healthcare, Deajeon University, Korea
*Corresponding Author: Meoung-sun Lee, Assistant Professor, Department of Beauty Healthcare, Deajeon University, Korea. Email: leesun1460@hanmail.net
Online published on 2 February, 2019.
The purpose of this paper is to systematically analyze the effect of manual therapy on psychological aspects by considering previous articles on manual therapy published in cosmetology over the past decade.
The data was gathered from journal articles on manual therapy published in Korea from January 2008 to December 2017. CMA (Comprehensive Meat-Analysis) version 3 was used for the meat-analysis.
The meta-analysis of 37 individual studies on the effect size of cosmetological manual therapy relative to psychological factors highlighted the following. Frist, manual therapy had a statistically significant large effect size in relation to psychological factors overall. Second, by treatment type, Swedish, meridian and myofascial massage had large effect sizes, in comparison to a medium effect size of Lymph massage. Third, by age group, large effect sizes were found in 20–39, 40–64 and 20+ groups, compared to a medium effect size in 65+ group. Fourth, in dependent variables, large effect sizes were found in both protection and risk factor groups.
This meta-analysis of the effects of cosmetological therapy on positive and negative psychological factors by age and treatment type provides scholarly reference data for cosmetology, as well as a systematic theoretical background for developing manual therapy programs applicable in practice.
Manual therapy, Meta-analysis, Psychological factors, Effect size, Complementary and alternative therapy
