# Caregiver-delivered infant massage × Reduced crying in infantile colic

Verdict 3011 · Evidence Check

Stored-material review date: Not recorded  
Original evidence cut-off: 2026-09-07  
Review-criteria version: 1.0  
Public page/material preparation date: 2026-10-20

Clinical papers were not read directly; existing review summaries were checked. No new clinical-literature search was performed. Unverified does not mean that research is absent or that there is no effect.

## Assessment scope

- Population: The question concerns crying in infantile colic. Report-specific diagnosis, age, baseline states, eligibility and valid arm- or diary-specific denominators remain unverified.
- Ingredient, formulation and route: Caregiver-delivered infant massage following instruction. Lavender combinations and nurse delivery are distinguished, without repurposing findings as oil-ingredient efficacy.
- Dose: The preserved caregiver-training and delivery context is retained. Detailed exposure, frequency, adherence, oils, contact and concurrent care remain unverified; no new procedure is created.
- Comparator: R01 crib vibration and R02 rocking are separated. Original mentions of usual care and kangaroo care remain separate context and are not turned into new direct reports.
- Measured outcome: Crying frequency, duration, total crying and colicky crying are distinguished. They are not converted into the separate sleep question or cure of colic; within-group decline, end-point signals and adjusted between-group net effects are separated.
- Duration: Huhtala observed 3 weeks and Sheidaei 1 week. Recording windows and post-treatment durability remain unverified.
- Questions outside this scope: Calculating new between-group differences, effects, CIs or adjusted net effects from original reductions or baseline values; Certifying a massage-specific effect with referral-day allocation, parent diaries, natural history, contact and baseline differences removed; Promoting improved crying or sleep into cure of colic, long-term durability or clinical events; Using completion records as valid denominators for every diary, arm, endpoint or harm, or as absence of events; Adding same-cohort reanalyses, shared reports, combined oils or professional delivery as independent replications; Inheriting historical registration narratives, identifiers or cross-checks as current external verification; Creating new massage procedures, treatment or individual diagnostic guidance, oil-ingredient efficacy claims or clinical verdicts

## Checklist items

### N01 · Which crying-reduction question is being considered?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The selected original claim is reduced crying in infantile colic. It is distinguished from the parent's overall crying-and-sleep question; the sleep subquestion is not merged into this crying question.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Selected and parent accounts and change records are needed. Content review of the boundary remains incomplete; this sheet is not counted as a new independent study or question.
- Required materials and conditions: Selected crying question versus the parent's crying and sleep scope
- Materials to obtain first: Selected and parent accounts and change records are needed. Content review of the boundary remains incomplete; this sheet is not counted as a new independent study or question.
- Further research: Material needed: Selected and parent accounts and change records are needed. Content review of the boundary remains incomplete; this sheet is not counted as a new independent study or question. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Selected crying question versus the parent's crying and sleep scope must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Selected crying question versus the parent's crying and sleep scope is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: 

### N02 · How do selected C and parent C46 differ?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The original explanation for selected C retains signals versus rocking or usual care and no benefit versus crib vibration. Parent C46, Caution and assessment axes concern the overall crying-and-sleep context.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: The selection has no separate score, status or assessment axes. Selected and parent values and correction records must be linked without automatically assigning the parent score or completed-review state.
- Required materials and conditions: Selected grade and explanation versus parent score and assessment axes
- Materials to obtain first: The selection has no separate score, status or assessment axes. Selected and parent values and correction records must be linked without automatically assigning the parent score or completed-review state.
- Further research: Material needed: The selection has no separate score, status or assessment axes. Selected and parent values and correction records must be linked without automatically assigning the parent score or completed-review state. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Selected grade and explanation versus parent score and assessment axes must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Selected grade and explanation versus parent score and assessment axes is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: 

### N03 · Are caregiver massage, combinations and professional delivery the same intervention?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The original intervention is caregiver-delivered infant massage. Lavender combinations and nurse delivery are not counted as independent replication of caregiver massage alone or repurposed as effects of oil ingredients.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original report-specific training, provider, oil, contact, adherence and concurrent-care specifications are needed. No new massage procedure, intensity, frequency or treatment guidance is created.
- Required materials and conditions: Distinction among providers, training, oils and combined interventions
- Materials to obtain first: Original report-specific training, provider, oil, contact, adherence and concurrent-care specifications are needed. No new massage procedure, intensity, frequency or treatment guidance is created.
- Further research: Material needed: Original report-specific training, provider, oil, contact, adherence and concurrent-care specifications are needed. No new massage procedure, intensity, frequency or treatment guidance is created. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Distinction among providers, training, oils and combined interventions must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Distinction among providers, training, oils and combined interventions is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N04 · How were infants with colic selected and defined?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The selected question concerns crying in infantile colic. Total and colicky crying and the context of natural improvement are retained; these labels alone do not establish detailed diagnosis or eligibility.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original diagnostic criteria, age, baseline illness, inclusion, exclusion, other causes of crying and report-specific distributions are needed. Eligibility and baseline tables and assessment materials remain needed.
- Required materials and conditions: Colic diagnosis, age, baseline crying, inclusion and exclusion
- Materials to obtain first: Original diagnostic criteria, age, baseline illness, inclusion, exclusion, other causes of crying and report-specific distributions are needed. Eligibility and baseline tables and assessment materials remain needed.
- Further research: Material needed: Original diagnostic criteria, age, baseline illness, inclusion, exclusion, other causes of crying and report-specific distributions are needed. Eligibility and baseline tables and assessment materials remain needed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Colic diagnosis, age, baseline crying, inclusion and exclusion must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Colic diagnosis, age, baseline crying, inclusion and exclusion is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N05 · Are crib vibration, rocking and usual care the same comparison?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The account distinguishes crib vibration, rocking, kangaroo care and usual care. The two preserved reports directly compare massage with crib vibration and rocking.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original comparator-specific contact, time, education, care, expectations, concurrent-exposure specifications and contrast plans are needed. Usual-care signals are not filled with a new report or effect estimate.
- Required materials and conditions: Contact, education, care and direct contrasts by active control
- Materials to obtain first: Original comparator-specific contact, time, education, care, expectations, concurrent-exposure specifications and contrast plans are needed. Usual-care signals are not filled with a new report or effect estimate.
- Further research: Material needed: Original comparator-specific contact, time, education, care, expectations, concurrent-exposure specifications and contrast plans are needed. Usual-care signals are not filled with a new report or effect estimate. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Contact, education, care and direct contrasts by active control must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Contact, education, care and direct contrasts by active control is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N06 · Could contact, education and care differences mix with the effect?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The original explanation retains differences in contact with the rocking control and parent diaries as limitations. Preserved results are not converted into a massage-specific effect with these differences removed.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Actual arm-specific contact, education, adherence, feeding, concurrent care and expectation records are needed. Contributions of accompanying care must be distinguished from massage.
- Required materials and conditions: Arm-specific contact, education, caregiver expectations and adherence
- Materials to obtain first: Actual arm-specific contact, education, adherence, feeding, concurrent care and expectation records are needed. Contributions of accompanying care must be distinguished from massage.
- Further research: Material needed: Actual arm-specific contact, education, adherence, feeding, concurrent care and expectation records are needed. Contributions of accompanying care must be distinguished from massage. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Arm-specific contact, education, caregiver expectations and adherence must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Arm-specific contact, education, caregiver expectations and adherence is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N07 · Are 1-week and 3-week crying results the same effect?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: Huhtala reports total and colicky crying at 3 weeks; Sheidaei reports crying frequency, duration and sleep at 1 week. The periods and measures are not merged as the same result.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original recording windows, visits, exposure start, post-treatment follow-up and period-specific valid denominators are needed. Short-term observation is distinguished from durability.
- Required materials and conditions: Trial-specific recording, exposure, visits and follow-up periods
- Materials to obtain first: Original recording windows, visits, exposure start, post-treatment follow-up and period-specific valid denominators are needed. Short-term observation is distinguished from durability.
- Further research: Material needed: Original recording windows, visits, exposure start, post-treatment follow-up and period-specific valid denominators are needed. Short-term observation is distinguished from durability. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Trial-specific recording, exposure, visits and follow-up periods must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Trial-specific recording, exposure, visits and follow-up periods is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N08 · What are crying frequency, duration, total crying and colicky crying?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: R01 concerns total and colicky crying at 3 weeks; R02 concerns crying frequency, duration and sleep at 1 week. Measure names alone do not verify definitions, aggregation or prespecified hierarchy.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original diaries, crying definitions, colicky classifications, aggregation, recording windows, prespecified endpoints, denominators and complete result tables are needed.
- Required materials and conditions: Crying definitions, units, diary aggregation and endpoint hierarchy
- Materials to obtain first: Original diaries, crying definitions, colicky classifications, aggregation, recording windows, prespecified endpoints, denominators and complete result tables are needed.
- Further research: Material needed: Original diaries, crying definitions, colicky classifications, aggregation, recording windows, prespecified endpoints, denominators and complete result tables are needed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Crying definitions, units, diary aggregation and endpoint hierarchy must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Crying definitions, units, diary aggregation and endpoint hierarchy is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N09 · Who recorded crying and knew the intervention?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The account explains that parents who knew the intervention recorded crying diaries, making a massage-specific effect difficult to establish. This limitation is retained.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Recording instruction, timing, adherence, missingness, assessor and aggregation masking, objective comparison records and expectation differences are needed. Diary procedures and measurement bias must be distinguished.
- Required materials and conditions: Parent diaries, masking, expectations and missing records
- Materials to obtain first: Recording instruction, timing, adherence, missingness, assessor and aggregation masking, objective comparison records and expectation differences are needed. Diary procedures and measurement bias must be distinguished.
- Further research: Material needed: Recording instruction, timing, adherence, missingness, assessor and aggregation masking, objective comparison records and expectation differences are needed. Diary procedures and measurement bias must be distinguished. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Parent diaries, masking, expectations and missing records must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Parent diaries, masking, expectations and missing records is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N10 · Is increased sleep converted into reduced crying or treatment of colic?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The parent covers crying and sleep; this selection concerns reduced crying. Increased sleep duration remains a separate subquestion and is not promoted to cure or causal treatment of colic.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Separate crying and sleep results, hierarchy, denominators, measurement intervals and direct links to diagnostic or treatment endpoints are needed.
- Required materials and conditions: Selected crying, separate sleep question and colic diagnosis
- Materials to obtain first: Separate crying and sleep results, hierarchy, denominators, measurement intervals and direct links to diagnostic or treatment endpoints are needed.
- Further research: Material needed: Separate crying and sleep results, hierarchy, denominators, measurement intervals and direct links to diagnostic or treatment endpoints are needed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Selected crying, separate sleep question and colic diagnosis must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Selected crying, separate sleep question and colic diagnosis is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N11 · Does a within-group crying decrease establish a massage-specific effect?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The account distinguishes natural improvement in colic and within-group decline from a massage-specific effect, retaining the investigators' natural-course interpretation.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original within- and between-group results, baseline, time, comparators and analysis are needed. Contributions of natural improvement, contact and expectations, adjusted net effects and period-specific denominators remain unverified.
- Required materials and conditions: Natural improvement, baseline, time and between-group comparison
- Materials to obtain first: Original within- and between-group results, baseline, time, comparators and analysis are needed. Contributions of natural improvement, contact and expectations, adjusted net effects and period-specific denominators remain unverified.
- Further research: Material needed: Original within- and between-group results, baseline, time, comparators and analysis are needed. Contributions of natural improvement, contact and expectations, adjusted net effects and period-specific denominators remain unverified. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Natural improvement, baseline, time and between-group comparison must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Natural improvement, baseline, time and between-group comparison is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N12 · What does the 58-infant, 3-week crib-vibration trial show?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: Huhtala 2000 compared massage with crib vibration in 58 infants. The original result of crying reduction at 3 weeks, 48% versus 47%, and no massage-specific benefit is retained.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original arm-specific allocation, analysis, baseline, endpoints, denominators, exact reduction definitions, adjusted contrasts and CIs are needed. No new difference between percentages, effect or treatment rate is calculated.
- Required materials and conditions: 58 infants, 3 weeks, 48% versus 47% and active-control results
- Materials to obtain first: Original arm-specific allocation, analysis, baseline, endpoints, denominators, exact reduction definitions, adjusted contrasts and CIs are needed. No new difference between percentages, effect or treatment rate is calculated.
- Further research: Material needed: Original arm-specific allocation, analysis, baseline, endpoints, denominators, exact reduction definitions, adjusted contrasts and CIs are needed. No new difference between percentages, effect or treatment rate is calculated. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on 58 infants, 3 weeks, 48% versus 47% and active-control results must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on 58 infants, 3 weeks, 48% versus 47% and active-control results is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01

### N13 · What analysis denominator does 58 infants represent?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The original sample size is 58 infants. It is not used as the valid denominator for every arm, crying, time or harms analysis.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original flow diagrams, valid denominators by arm, endpoint and diary, attrition, exclusions and person or record units are needed.
- Required materials and conditions: Total and arm-specific allocation, analysis and diary- or endpoint-specific denominators
- Materials to obtain first: Original flow diagrams, valid denominators by arm, endpoint and diary, attrition, exclusions and person or record units are needed.
- Further research: Material needed: Original flow diagrams, valid denominators by arm, endpoint and diary, attrition, exclusions and person or record units are needed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Total and arm-specific allocation, analysis and diary- or endpoint-specific denominators must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Total and arm-specific allocation, analysis and diary- or endpoint-specific denominators is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01

### N14 · What are the results of the 100-infant, 1-week rocking comparison?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: Sheidaei 2016 is a quasi-random referral-day massage-versus-rocking trial. The end-point crying signal is retained, but the adjusted net effect is unclear. The randomized-trial wording in the bibliographic title is also preserved in the original.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, P, analysis populations, contact, time, baseline, prespecified hierarchy and complete tables are needed. The bibliographic title and allocation limitations are retained together.
- Required materials and conditions: Referral-day allocation, baseline imbalance and adjusted net effect
- Materials to obtain first: Original adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, P, analysis populations, contact, time, baseline, prespecified hierarchy and complete tables are needed. The bibliographic title and allocation limitations are retained together.
- Further research: Material needed: Original adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, P, analysis populations, contact, time, baseline, prespecified hierarchy and complete tables are needed. The bibliographic title and allocation limitations are retained together. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Referral-day allocation, baseline imbalance and adjusted net effect must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Referral-day allocation, baseline imbalance and adjusted net effect is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R02

### N15 · What do baseline 4.96 versus 3.00 h represent?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The R02 values 4.96 versus 3.00 h describe baseline crying imbalance. They are not converted into end-point values, changes or adjusted net effects.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original arm-specific baseline and end-point results, denominators, variance, CIs and adjustment models are needed. No new time difference, effect size or adjusted value is calculated.
- Required materials and conditions: Baseline crying versus end-point values, change and adjusted effects
- Materials to obtain first: Original arm-specific baseline and end-point results, denominators, variance, CIs and adjustment models are needed. No new time difference, effect size or adjusted value is calculated.
- Further research: Material needed: Original arm-specific baseline and end-point results, denominators, variance, CIs and adjustment models are needed. No new time difference, effect size or adjusted value is calculated. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Baseline crying versus end-point values, change and adjusted effects must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Baseline crying versus end-point values, change and adjusted effects is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R02

### N16 · Are 9.22 versus 12.24 h the selected crying effect?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The R02 values 9.22 versus 12.24 h describe baseline sleep imbalance. They are not repurposed as selected crying values, improvements or treatment effects.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original sleep and crying tables, baseline adjustment, analysis plans, denominators, correlations and exact final or between-group effects are needed.
- Required materials and conditions: Baseline sleep and separate crying and sleep analyses
- Materials to obtain first: Original sleep and crying tables, baseline adjustment, analysis plans, denominators, correlations and exact final or between-group effects are needed.
- Further research: Material needed: Original sleep and crying tables, baseline adjustment, analysis plans, denominators, correlations and exact final or between-group effects are needed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Baseline sleep and separate crying and sleep analyses must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Baseline sleep and separate crying and sleep analyses is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R02

### N17 · What limitations does referral-day allocation leave?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The original explanation and design explicitly describe predictable referral-day allocation and baseline imbalance. Original design labels and limitations are retained.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original visit and allocation rules, concealment, recruitment, exclusions, baseline and follow-up adjustment and selection differences are needed. No new formal bias assessment or bias-magnitude calculation is performed.
- Required materials and conditions: Allocation, concealment, visit sequence and baseline balance
- Materials to obtain first: Original visit and allocation rules, concealment, recruitment, exclusions, baseline and follow-up adjustment and selection differences are needed. No new formal bias assessment or bias-magnitude calculation is performed.
- Further research: Material needed: Original visit and allocation rules, concealment, recruitment, exclusions, baseline and follow-up adjustment and selection differences are needed. No new formal bias assessment or bias-magnitude calculation is performed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Allocation, concealment, visit sequence and baseline balance must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Allocation, concealment, visit sequence and baseline balance is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R02

### N18 · Does completion by all 100 infants mean every record is complete?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The original record states 100 infants, all completed. This alone does not establish absence of missing crying, sleep or harms diary entries.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original flow diagrams, valid arm-, diary- and endpoint-specific denominators, missing records, exclusions, adjustments and harm-collection material are needed.
- Required materials and conditions: Completion versus diary-, arm- and endpoint-specific validity
- Materials to obtain first: Original flow diagrams, valid arm-, diary- and endpoint-specific denominators, missing records, exclusions, adjustments and harm-collection material are needed.
- Further research: Material needed: Original flow diagrams, valid arm-, diary- and endpoint-specific denominators, missing records, exclusions, adjustments and harm-collection material are needed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Completion versus diary-, arm- and endpoint-specific validity must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Completion versus diary-, arm- and endpoint-specific validity is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R02

### N19 · How are within-group, between-group, end-point and adjusted results distinguished?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The account distinguishes within-group decline, caregiver expectations and control differences from a net massage effect; the adjusted net effect remains unresolved.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original analysis plans, ITT, PP, contrasts, models, baseline adjustment, period and diary averages, exact estimates, CIs and complete tables are needed.
- Required materials and conditions: Analysis population, effect of interest, model and direct contrast
- Materials to obtain first: Original analysis plans, ITT, PP, contrasts, models, baseline adjustment, period and diary averages, exact estimates, CIs and complete tables are needed.
- Further research: Material needed: Original analysis plans, ITT, PP, contrasts, models, baseline adjustment, period and diary averages, exact estimates, CIs and complete tables are needed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Analysis population, effect of interest, model and direct contrast must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Analysis population, effect of interest, model and direct contrast is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N20 · Were crying endpoints and analyses prespecified?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The original grade explanation says that a reliable prespecified between-group net effect was not established. Representative parent-endpoint summaries are not converted into certification of prespecification.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original registration history, protocols, analysis plans, primary and secondary hierarchy, recording windows, multiplicity and timing of plan changes are needed.
- Required materials and conditions: Registration, protocols, analysis plans and crying or sleep hierarchy
- Materials to obtain first: Original registration history, protocols, analysis plans, primary and secondary hierarchy, recording windows, multiplicity and timing of plan changes are needed.
- Further research: Material needed: Original registration history, protocols, analysis plans, primary and secondary hierarchy, recording windows, multiplicity and timing of plan changes are needed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Registration, protocols, analysis plans and crying or sleep hierarchy must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Registration, protocols, analysis plans and crying or sleep hierarchy is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N21 · What information do the pre-registration narrative and IRCT identifier provide?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: Huhtala's pre-registration-era absence narrative and Sheidaei's IRCT201106054317N5 are retained as original records. They do not represent current registry retrieval or content verification.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Actual original registration, protocols, history and links to reports and plans are needed. Historical wording is not converted into a new search conclusion, or IRCT into certification under another registry system.
- Required materials and conditions: Historical registration narrative and identifier versus actual content verification
- Materials to obtain first: Actual original registration, protocols, history and links to reports and plans are needed. Historical wording is not converted into a new search conclusion, or IRCT into certification under another registry system.
- Further research: Material needed: Actual original registration, protocols, history and links to reports and plans are needed. Historical wording is not converted into a new search conclusion, or IRCT into certification under another registry system. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Historical registration narrative and identifier versus actual content verification must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Historical registration narrative and identifier versus actual content verification is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N22 · Are differing active-control results retained together?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The selected explanation retains signals versus rocking or usual care and no benefit versus crib vibration. The 48% versus 47% result is not omitted.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Complete original results, control conditions, adjusted effects, CIs, inclusion and exclusion lists and direct usual-care materials are needed for each comparison.
- Required materials and conditions: No benefit versus crib vibration versus a signal against rocking
- Materials to obtain first: Complete original results, control conditions, adjusted effects, CIs, inclusion and exclusion lists and direct usual-care materials are needed for each comparison.
- Further research: Material needed: Complete original results, control conditions, adjusted effects, CIs, inclusion and exclusion lists and direct usual-care materials are needed for each comparison. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on No benefit versus crib vibration versus a signal against rocking must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on No benefit versus crib vibration versus a signal against rocking is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N23 · Is the later statistical paper independent replication?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The original explanation explicitly says that the later statistical paper reanalyzed the same 100 infants. A reanalysis without an exact bibliography is not turned into a new report or independent trial.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Exact bibliographies for the main report and reanalysis, original analyses, recruitment, registration, cohort links and whether new data were used are needed. The same participants are not added twice.
- Required materials and conditions: Reanalysis of the same 100 infants versus report and cohort links
- Materials to obtain first: Exact bibliographies for the main report and reanalysis, original analyses, recruitment, registration, cohort links and whether new data were used are needed. The same participants are not added twice.
- Further research: Material needed: Exact bibliographies for the main report and reanalysis, original analyses, recruitment, registration, cohort links and whether new data were used are needed. The same participants are not added twice. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Reanalysis of the same 100 infants versus report and cohort links must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Reanalysis of the same 100 infants versus report and cohort links is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R02

### N24 · Are lavender combinations and nurse delivery counted as the same intervention?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The account records that lavender combinations and nurse delivery are not independent replication of caregiver massage alone. No new bibliography or oil-ingredient efficacy claim is created.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Existing originals, intervention specifications, denominators, components, providers, contributions of massage and ingredients and applicability materials are needed.
- Required materials and conditions: Caregiver massage alone versus combined oils and professional delivery
- Materials to obtain first: Existing originals, intervention specifications, denominators, components, providers, contributions of massage and ingredients and applicability materials are needed.
- Further research: Material needed: Existing originals, intervention specifications, denominators, components, providers, contributions of massage and ingredients and applicability materials are needed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Caregiver massage alone versus combined oils and professional delivery must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Caregiver massage alone versus combined oils and professional delivery is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: 

### N25 · Are the same reports counted repeatedly across crying, parent and sleep questions?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The selected crying question and parent or sleep subquestion share the two preserved reports. Report-link counts are not converted into certification of unique trial or participant totals.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Links among original registration, recruitment, reports, reanalyses, cohorts, endpoints and denominators are needed. Unique trial, participant and independent-replication totals remain unverified.
- Required materials and conditions: Shared reports, endpoints, related cohorts and unique counts
- Materials to obtain first: Links among original registration, recruitment, reports, reanalyses, cohorts, endpoints and denominators are needed. Unique trial, participant and independent-replication totals remain unverified.
- Further research: Material needed: Links among original registration, recruitment, reports, reanalyses, cohorts, endpoints and denominators are needed. Unique trial, participant and independent-replication totals remain unverified. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Shared reports, endpoints, related cohorts and unique counts must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Shared reports, endpoints, related cohorts and unique counts is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N26 · Are the CI and clinical importance of crying reduction known?

Verification status: Unverified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The original counterview retains the significance of short-term crying and sleep signals, while the grade explanation says that reliable net effects and strengths were not established.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original adjusted effects, CIs, denominators, variance, clinical thresholds and family-specific importance for selected crying are needed. No new effect, interval, importance threshold or individual effect is calculated.
- Required materials and conditions: Adjusted contrast, precision and differences important to families
- Materials to obtain first: Original adjusted effects, CIs, denominators, variance, clinical thresholds and family-specific importance for selected crying are needed. No new effect, interval, importance threshold or individual effect is calculated.
- Further research: Material needed: Original adjusted effects, CIs, denominators, variance, clinical thresholds and family-specific importance for selected crying are needed. No new effect, interval, importance threshold or individual effect is calculated. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Adjusted contrast, precision and differences important to families must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Adjusted contrast, precision and differences important to families is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N27 · How are 1-week and 3-week results and different controls or delivery conditions distinguished?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The account explains that differing active controls and unmasked parent diaries make established treatment effects difficult to claim.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Condition-specific original results, eligibility, baseline, exposure, plans and direct differences by period, control or provider, heterogeneity, subgroups and inclusion lists are needed.
- Required materials and conditions: Duration, active control, contact, baseline, measurement and intervention
- Materials to obtain first: Condition-specific original results, eligibility, baseline, exposure, plans and direct differences by period, control or provider, heterogeneity, subgroups and inclusion lists are needed.
- Further research: Material needed: Condition-specific original results, eligibility, baseline, exposure, plans and direct differences by period, control or provider, heterogeneity, subgroups and inclusion lists are needed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Duration, active control, contact, baseline, measurement and intervention must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Duration, active control, contact, baseline, measurement and intervention is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N28 · Does short-term crying reduction establish durability or cure?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The original positive trial is short, such as 1 week, and relies on parent diaries. Selected crying changes are distinguished from colic itself and long-term persistence.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original post-treatment follow-up, crying after stopping, colic diagnosis or resolution, development, clinical events, between-group results and denominators are needed.
- Required materials and conditions: Short observation versus post-treatment follow-up and resolution of colic
- Materials to obtain first: Original post-treatment follow-up, crying after stopping, colic diagnosis or resolution, development, clinical events, between-group results and denominators are needed.
- Further research: Material needed: Original post-treatment follow-up, crying after stopping, colic diagnosis or resolution, development, clinical events, between-group results and denominators are needed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Short observation versus post-treatment follow-up and resolution of colic must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Short observation versus post-treatment follow-up and resolution of colic is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N29 · How much is known about funding, COI and institutional support?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: Specific Huhtala funding and COI are unverified. The original record of acknowledged Sheidaei institutional support and unverified independent funding is retained.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original funding, COI, contracts, institution and author roles, and involvement in education, products, analysis and publication are needed. Support narratives are not converted into detailed certification of independence.
- Required materials and conditions: Specific funding, support, COI and analysis or publication roles
- Materials to obtain first: Original funding, COI, contracts, institution and author roles, and involvement in education, products, analysis and publication are needed. Support narratives are not converted into detailed certification of independence.
- Further research: Material needed: Original funding, COI, contracts, institution and author roles, and involvement in education, products, analysis and publication are needed. Support narratives are not converted into detailed certification of independence. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Specific funding, support, COI and analysis or publication roles must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Specific funding, support, COI and analysis or publication roles is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N30 · What materials were actually read in this work?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The stored complete parent summary and selected crying question were read for production, linking the two actual evidence and bibliographic reports. External materials are unread and access was not attempted.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: External identity, content, original diaries, registration, prespecified plans and actual availability or acquisition materials are needed. Summary reading is distinguished from reading external originals.
- Required materials and conditions: Stored complete parent summary and selected question versus external materials
- Materials to obtain first: External identity, content, original diaries, registration, prespecified plans and actual availability or acquisition materials are needed. Summary reading is distinguished from reading external originals.
- Further research: Material needed: External identity, content, original diaries, registration, prespecified plans and actual availability or acquisition materials are needed. Summary reading is distinguished from reading external originals. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Stored complete parent summary and selected question versus external materials must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Stored complete parent summary and selected question versus external materials is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N31 · What is the scope of the original evidence date and historical cross-check?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The original evidence date is 2026-09-07 and the correction array is empty. Historical verification and cross-check narratives remain in the original and are not promoted to current external verification.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Records of historical access and reading locations and times, search scope, current external material and correction events are needed. Production time does not become an evidence-verification date.
- Required materials and conditions: Original account date, empty correction history and production time
- Materials to obtain first: Records of historical access and reading locations and times, search scope, current external material and correction events are needed. Production time does not become an evidence-verification date.
- Further research: Material needed: Records of historical access and reading locations and times, search scope, current external material and correction events are needed. Production time does not become an evidence-verification date. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Original account date, empty correction history and production time must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Original account date, empty correction history and production time is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N32 · How are selected Korean and English wording and parent explanations preserved?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: Selected Korean and English wording and the C explanation retain signals versus rocking or usual care and no benefit versus crib vibration. The parent's Korean and English explanations remain overall context.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Selected and parent originals and correction records are needed. External detailed translation comparison and content review remain incomplete; no new selected score, status or use or treatment guidance is created.
- Required materials and conditions: Selected claim, grade and explanation versus parent crying and sleep scope
- Materials to obtain first: Selected and parent originals and correction records are needed. External detailed translation comparison and content review remain incomplete; no new selected score, status or use or treatment guidance is created.
- Further research: Material needed: Selected and parent originals and correction records are needed. External detailed translation comparison and content review remain incomplete; no new selected score, status or use or treatment guidance is created. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Selected claim, grade and explanation versus parent crying and sleep scope must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Selected claim, grade and explanation versus parent crying and sleep scope is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N33 · Do parent assessment axes establish completed review of the selected question?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: Parent assessment axes, false-valued markers and empty values remain in the complete original. Separate selected axes, score or status are not created, and parent assessment is not inherited as completed review.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original selected and parent assessments and correction records must be linked. No new formal assessment, grade, independence certification or external content review of the selection was performed.
- Required materials and conditions: Parent axes, false-valued markers and empty values versus selected fields
- Materials to obtain first: Original selected and parent assessments and correction records must be linked. No new formal assessment, grade, independence certification or external content review of the selection was performed.
- Further research: Material needed: Original selected and parent assessments and correction records must be linked. No new formal assessment, grade, independence certification or external content review of the selection was performed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Parent axes, false-valued markers and empty values versus selected fields must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Parent axes, false-valued markers and empty values versus selected fields is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N34 · How were harms collected?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The parent's safety wording addresses infant safety boundaries, but the two preserved reports contain no actual arm-specific harm-event tables. Safety wording is not converted into completed harm collection.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original harm tables, event types, active or spontaneous collection, severity, diagnosis, arm-specific counts, exposure, missingness and reporting scope are needed.
- Required materials and conditions: Harm-event definitions, severity, collection methods and exposure
- Materials to obtain first: Original harm tables, event types, active or spontaneous collection, severity, diagnosis, arm-specific counts, exposure, missingness and reporting scope are needed.
- Further research: Material needed: Original harm tables, event types, active or spontaneous collection, severity, diagnosis, arm-specific counts, exposure, missingness and reporting scope are needed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Harm-event definitions, severity, collection methods and exposure must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Harm-event definitions, severity, collection methods and exposure is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N35 · Are exposure, event, stopping and recovery timelines known?

Verification status: Unverified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: Original 1-week and 3-week efficacy observations are not used as harm-onset or recovery timelines. Crying observation and harm timing are distinguished.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Existing event, exposure, follow-up, stopping, recovery, latency and actual timeline materials are needed. Unknown events are not filled in.
- Required materials and conditions: Harm onset and recovery versus exposure and observation timing
- Materials to obtain first: Existing event, exposure, follow-up, stopping, recovery, latency and actual timeline materials are needed. Unknown events are not filled in.
- Further research: Material needed: Existing event, exposure, follow-up, stopping, recovery, latency and actual timeline materials are needed. Unknown events are not filled in. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Harm onset and recovery versus exposure and observation timing must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Harm onset and recovery versus exposure and observation timing is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N36 · Can harm frequency or comparative risk be stated?

Verification status: Unverified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: A sample of 58 infants, completion by all 100 infants and crying reduction do not establish harm denominators or absence of events. No new harm frequency or comparative risk is calculated.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original arm-specific harms, exposure, affected people, event counts, time, duplicates, denominators, direct comparisons and CIs are needed.
- Required materials and conditions: Arm-specific exposure, affected people, event counts, time and denominators
- Materials to obtain first: Original arm-specific harms, exposure, affected people, event counts, time, duplicates, denominators, direct comparisons and CIs are needed.
- Further research: Material needed: Original arm-specific harms, exposure, affected people, event counts, time, duplicates, denominators, direct comparisons and CIs are needed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Arm-specific exposure, affected people, event counts, time and denominators must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Arm-specific exposure, affected people, event counts, time and denominators is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N37 · Are other crying causes and baseline states distinguished from effects and harms?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The parent's safety narrative includes boundaries concerning other conditions. The account is preserved in internal originals without becoming new individual diagnostic or treatment guidance.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original eligibility, baseline illnesses, diagnosis, concurrent exposures, care, alternative event explanations and adjustment materials are needed.
- Required materials and conditions: Colic, other conditions, concurrent care and alternative explanations
- Materials to obtain first: Original eligibility, baseline illnesses, diagnosis, concurrent exposures, care, alternative event explanations and adjustment materials are needed.
- Further research: Material needed: Original eligibility, baseline illnesses, diagnosis, concurrent exposures, care, alternative event explanations and adjustment materials are needed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Colic, other conditions, concurrent care and alternative explanations must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Colic, other conditions, concurrent care and alternative explanations is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N38 · Are harms in the same report or reanalysis counted as independent events?

Verification status: Unverified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: Reanalysis of the same 100 infants and repeated Korean, English and safety narratives are not new independent events. The same record is not counted twice.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Existing events, original reports, related reanalyses, recitations, family links, unique event counts and duplication materials are needed.
- Required materials and conditions: Affected people and events versus reanalysis, recitation and report relationships
- Materials to obtain first: Existing events, original reports, related reanalyses, recitations, family links, unique event counts and duplication materials are needed.
- Further research: Material needed: Existing events, original reports, related reanalyses, recitations, family links, unique event counts and duplication materials are needed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Affected people and events versus reanalysis, recitation and report relationships must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Affected people and events versus reanalysis, recitation and report relationships is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N39 · Do short-term data answer long-term or rare-harm questions?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: Original small 1-week and 3-week trials and safety narratives are not extended into safety guarantees for all infants or long-term use.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Existing long-term or rare events, special populations, vulnerability, exposure, concurrent care and safety follow-up materials are needed.
- Required materials and conditions: Observation periods, population-specific baseline states and long-term or rare events
- Materials to obtain first: Existing long-term or rare events, special populations, vulnerability, exposure, concurrent care and safety follow-up materials are needed.
- Further research: Material needed: Existing long-term or rare events, special populations, vulnerability, exposure, concurrent care and safety follow-up materials are needed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Observation periods, population-specific baseline states and long-term or rare events must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Observation periods, population-specific baseline states and long-term or rare events is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N40 · How far do signals, no difference and uncertainty extend?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: Selected C and the original comparison-specific signals or null findings are retained. Improved crying is not promoted into established treatment of colic or a massage-specific effect.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original results, prespecified plans, direct adjusted effects, CIs, objective records, long-term data, harms, independence links and correction materials are needed.
- Required materials and conditions: Active controls, parent diaries, natural history and net effect
- Materials to obtain first: Original results, prespecified plans, direct adjusted effects, CIs, objective records, long-term data, harms, independence links and correction materials are needed.
- Further research: Material needed: Original results, prespecified plans, direct adjusted effects, CIs, objective records, long-term data, harms, independence links and correction materials are needed. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Active controls, parent diaries, natural history and net effect must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Active controls, parent diaries, natural history and net effect is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N41 · Do methodological links mean content review is complete?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: The 5 preserved method documents and family conditions link existing principles for production. Linking alone does not establish a new methodological assessment, clinical content review or passed clinical validation.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Review of individual methods and external content, with relevant existing materials, remains needed. Criterion design and observation writing are distinguished from completed content review.
- Required materials and conditions: 5 preserved methodological sources versus criterion design and content review
- Materials to obtain first: Review of individual methods and external content, with relevant existing materials, remains needed. Criterion design and observation writing are distinguished from completed content review.
- Further research: Material needed: Review of individual methods and external content, with relevant existing materials, remains needed. Criterion design and observation writing are distinguished from completed content review. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on 5 preserved methodological sources versus criterion design and content review must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on 5 preserved methodological sources versus criterion design and content review is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

### N42 · What materials would update the crying evidence gaps?

Verification status: Partly verified  
Reading scope: Complete stored parent summary, selected question and bibliography read; external abstracts, full text, registration, protocols, analysis plans, diaries, harms and support materials unread

- Current findings: This production transfers existing C, comparison-specific results and gaps. Boundaries among crying, sleep, colic, comparators, periods, parent diaries and shared cohorts are retained.
- Why unverified: This links narratives and gaps in the preserved selected and parent accounts. External verification and existing clinical content review remain incomplete; it does not certify fulfillment of conditions, a net massage effect, treatment or safety.
- Reason for missing information: Original diaries, results, registration, analysis plans, contact, baseline, shared cohorts, long-term data, harms and correction records are needed. The prior original must be preserved and criterion revisions distinguished from material additions.
- Required materials and conditions: Arm and diary denominators, adjusted effects, CIs, plans and report relationships
- Materials to obtain first: Original diaries, results, registration, analysis plans, contact, baseline, shared cohorts, long-term data, harms and correction records are needed. The prior original must be preserved and criterion revisions distinguished from material additions.
- Further research: Material needed: Original diaries, results, registration, analysis plans, contact, baseline, shared cohorts, long-term data, harms and correction records are needed. The prior original must be preserved and criterion revisions distinguished from material additions. This records needed materials; no new research was executed.
- Conditions for verification: Original material on Arm and diary denominators, adjusted effects, CIs, plans and report relationships must link to the relevant report, comparator, period, measures, baseline, denominators and analysis, distinguishing selected crying, parent sleep context, historical narratives and unread external material.
- Why this condition is needed: Material on Arm and diary denominators, adjusted effects, CIs, plans and report relationships is needed to connect the selected crying question with population, provider, comparator, period, baseline, diaries, denominators, precision and harms.
- Application exceptions: Selected C and the absence of individual score, status and axes are retained without inheriting parent C46. Different comparators, periods, parent diaries, natural history, baseline imbalance, reanalyses and shared reports are distinguished. No new effect, CI, denominator total, independence count, grade, procedure, individual diagnosis or treatment guidance is created.
- Remaining uncertainty: Exact adjusted between-group crying effects, CIs, valid diaries, arm-specific denominators, prespecified plans, contact, baseline, durability, harms and unique-cohort relationships remain unverified. Original reductions, baseline values and completion records are not converted into new effects, denominators, safety conclusions or independent replications.
- Referenced methods: Preserved principles distinguishing questions, comparators, reports and trials, endpoints, denominators, precision and harms informed production.
- Related sources: R01, R02

## Evidence and sources

### R01

Huhtala V et al. 2000

[PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10835097/)

Materials actually read: Only the stored parent summary and bibliography were read. External abstracts, full text, registration, plans, diaries, harms and support materials are unread.  
Findings recorded in the summary: There were 58 infants and 3 weeks of observation; crying fell 48% with massage versus 47% with crib vibration. The original finding of no massage-specific benefit is retained without calculating a reduction difference or new effect or CI.  
Record level: This is a stored summary of the 3-week active-control result and natural-course interpretation. Exact between-group contrasts, arm-specific denominators, reduction definitions and CIs remain unverified; external originals were not verified in this work.  
Independent replication: Preserved links include individual reports and their sharing across crying, parent and sleep questions. Reanalysis of the same 100 infants is not a new cohort; combinations and professional delivery are not added as independent replication of caregiver massage. Unique trial and participant totals remain unverified.

| Material | Public availability | Access status | Actually read | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stored existing review summary | Preserved copy of the complete parent-verdict stored summary | Stored summary | Summary read | The preserved bibliography links PMID10835097 and DOI10.1542/peds.105.6.e84. The pre-registration-era absence narrative and unverified specific funding or COI are historical records, not results of current external retrieval or verification. Table dates are historical markers of the original account date. A date does not mean external material was acquired, read or reviewed in this work; the original annotation is retained in internal originals. |
| External abstract | Original bibliographic link or needed material; external public availability/access status unverified | Unread; access not attempted | Not read | The preserved bibliography links PMID10835097 and DOI10.1542/peds.105.6.e84. The pre-registration-era absence narrative and unverified specific funding or COI are historical records, not results of current external retrieval or verification. Table dates are historical markers of the original account date. A date does not mean external material was acquired, read or reviewed in this work; the original annotation is retained in internal originals. |
| External full text | Original bibliographic link or needed material; external public availability/access status unverified | Unread; access not attempted | Not read | The preserved bibliography links PMID10835097 and DOI10.1542/peds.105.6.e84. The pre-registration-era absence narrative and unverified specific funding or COI are historical records, not results of current external retrieval or verification. Table dates are historical markers of the original account date. A date does not mean external material was acquired, read or reviewed in this work; the original annotation is retained in internal originals. |
| Registration material | Original bibliographic link or needed material; external public availability/access status unverified | Unread; access not attempted | Not read | The preserved bibliography links PMID10835097 and DOI10.1542/peds.105.6.e84. The pre-registration-era absence narrative and unverified specific funding or COI are historical records, not results of current external retrieval or verification. Table dates are historical markers of the original account date. A date does not mean external material was acquired, read or reviewed in this work; the original annotation is retained in internal originals. |
| Protocol | Original bibliographic link or needed material; external public availability/access status unverified | Unread; access not attempted | Not read | The preserved bibliography links PMID10835097 and DOI10.1542/peds.105.6.e84. The pre-registration-era absence narrative and unverified specific funding or COI are historical records, not results of current external retrieval or verification. Table dates are historical markers of the original account date. A date does not mean external material was acquired, read or reviewed in this work; the original annotation is retained in internal originals. |
| Analysis plans, denominators and diaries | Original bibliographic link or needed material; external public availability/access status unverified | Unread; access not attempted | Not read | The preserved bibliography links PMID10835097 and DOI10.1542/peds.105.6.e84. The pre-registration-era absence narrative and unverified specific funding or COI are historical records, not results of current external retrieval or verification. Table dates are historical markers of the original account date. A date does not mean external material was acquired, read or reviewed in this work; the original annotation is retained in internal originals. |
| Appendices, intervention and harms | Original bibliographic link or needed material; external public availability/access status unverified | Unread; access not attempted | Not read | The preserved bibliography links PMID10835097 and DOI10.1542/peds.105.6.e84. The pre-registration-era absence narrative and unverified specific funding or COI are historical records, not results of current external retrieval or verification. Table dates are historical markers of the original account date. A date does not mean external material was acquired, read or reviewed in this work; the original annotation is retained in internal originals. |
| Funding and interests | Original bibliographic link or needed material; external public availability/access status unverified | Unread; access not attempted | Not read | The preserved bibliography links PMID10835097 and DOI10.1542/peds.105.6.e84. The pre-registration-era absence narrative and unverified specific funding or COI are historical records, not results of current external retrieval or verification. Table dates are historical markers of the original account date. A date does not mean external material was acquired, read or reviewed in this work; the original annotation is retained in internal originals. |

### R02

Sheidaei A et al. 2016

[PubMed](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27453882/)

Materials actually read: Only the stored parent summary and bibliography were read. External abstracts, full text, registration, plans, diaries, harms and support materials are unread.  
Findings recorded in the summary: The record states 100 infants, all completed, with a crying signal at the 1-week end point. Baseline imbalance in crying, 4.96 versus 3.00 h, and sleep, 9.22 versus 12.24 h, is retained; the adjusted net effect is unclear.  
Record level: This is a 1-week end-point signal retaining referral-day allocation, baseline imbalance, parent diaries and contact differences. Reanalysis of the same 100 infants is not added as independent replication; no new adjusted effect or CI was calculated here.  
Independent replication: Preserved links include individual reports and their sharing across crying, parent and sleep questions. Reanalysis of the same 100 infants is not a new cohort; combinations and professional delivery are not added as independent replication of caregiver massage. Unique trial and participant totals remain unverified.

| Material | Public availability | Access status | Actually read | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stored existing review summary | Preserved copy of the complete parent-verdict stored summary | Stored summary | Summary read | The preserved bibliography's PMID27453882 and PMCID PMC4934450, and original IRCT201106054317N5, are retained. Acknowledged institutional support, unverified independent funding, referral-day allocation and the bibliographic title are distinguished; registration, full text and support content are unread in this work. Table dates are historical markers of the original account date. A date does not mean external material was acquired, read or reviewed in this work; the original annotation is retained in internal originals. |
| External abstract | Original bibliographic link or needed material; external public availability/access status unverified | Unread; access not attempted | Not read | The preserved bibliography's PMID27453882 and PMCID PMC4934450, and original IRCT201106054317N5, are retained. Acknowledged institutional support, unverified independent funding, referral-day allocation and the bibliographic title are distinguished; registration, full text and support content are unread in this work. Table dates are historical markers of the original account date. A date does not mean external material was acquired, read or reviewed in this work; the original annotation is retained in internal originals. |
| External full text | Original bibliographic link or needed material; external public availability/access status unverified | Unread; access not attempted | Not read | The preserved bibliography's PMID27453882 and PMCID PMC4934450, and original IRCT201106054317N5, are retained. Acknowledged institutional support, unverified independent funding, referral-day allocation and the bibliographic title are distinguished; registration, full text and support content are unread in this work. Table dates are historical markers of the original account date. A date does not mean external material was acquired, read or reviewed in this work; the original annotation is retained in internal originals. |
| Registration material | Original bibliographic link or needed material; external public availability/access status unverified | Unread; access not attempted | Not read | The preserved bibliography's PMID27453882 and PMCID PMC4934450, and original IRCT201106054317N5, are retained. Acknowledged institutional support, unverified independent funding, referral-day allocation and the bibliographic title are distinguished; registration, full text and support content are unread in this work. Table dates are historical markers of the original account date. A date does not mean external material was acquired, read or reviewed in this work; the original annotation is retained in internal originals. |
| Protocol | Original bibliographic link or needed material; external public availability/access status unverified | Unread; access not attempted | Not read | The preserved bibliography's PMID27453882 and PMCID PMC4934450, and original IRCT201106054317N5, are retained. Acknowledged institutional support, unverified independent funding, referral-day allocation and the bibliographic title are distinguished; registration, full text and support content are unread in this work. Table dates are historical markers of the original account date. A date does not mean external material was acquired, read or reviewed in this work; the original annotation is retained in internal originals. |
| Analysis plans, denominators and diaries | Original bibliographic link or needed material; external public availability/access status unverified | Unread; access not attempted | Not read | The preserved bibliography's PMID27453882 and PMCID PMC4934450, and original IRCT201106054317N5, are retained. Acknowledged institutional support, unverified independent funding, referral-day allocation and the bibliographic title are distinguished; registration, full text and support content are unread in this work. Table dates are historical markers of the original account date. A date does not mean external material was acquired, read or reviewed in this work; the original annotation is retained in internal originals. |
| Appendices, intervention and harms | Original bibliographic link or needed material; external public availability/access status unverified | Unread; access not attempted | Not read | The preserved bibliography's PMID27453882 and PMCID PMC4934450, and original IRCT201106054317N5, are retained. Acknowledged institutional support, unverified independent funding, referral-day allocation and the bibliographic title are distinguished; registration, full text and support content are unread in this work. Table dates are historical markers of the original account date. A date does not mean external material was acquired, read or reviewed in this work; the original annotation is retained in internal originals. |
| Funding and interests | Original bibliographic link or needed material; external public availability/access status unverified | Unread; access not attempted | Not read | The preserved bibliography's PMID27453882 and PMCID PMC4934450, and original IRCT201106054317N5, are retained. Acknowledged institutional support, unverified independent funding, referral-day allocation and the bibliographic title are distinguished; registration, full text and support content are unread in this work. Table dates are historical markers of the original account date. A date does not mean external material was acquired, read or reviewed in this work; the original annotation is retained in internal originals. |

## Review criteria and methods

These are Chamgap's own application conditions, informed by the relevant sections of official methodological guidance. They do not constitute official assessment-tool certification or a new efficacy score.

- M03 [Cochrane Handbook 6.5 (2024), chapter updated 2023-08](https://www.cochrane.org/authors/handbooks-and-manuals/handbook/current/chapter-03) · §3.1, §3.2.1–3.2.3, MECIR C5/C7/C13 · Clearly record the question, eligibility conditions and reasons for changes, and distinguish variations in interventions. · Existing methodological links were reused for production. External originals were not reread and methodological content was not reassessed.
- M04 [Cochrane Handbook 6.5.1 (2025), chapter updated 2025-03](https://www.cochrane.org/authors/handbooks-and-manuals/handbook/current/chapter-04) · §4.5, §4.6.1–4.6.3, MECIR C42 · Distinguish studies from reports and link them; do not omit a study solely because results are unreported. · Existing methodological links were reused for production. External originals were not reread and methodological content was not reassessed.
- M08 [Cochrane Handbook 6.5 (2024), chapter updated 2019-10](https://www.cochrane.org/authors/handbooks-and-manuals/handbook/current/chapter-08) · §8.1–8.2.3, Table 8.2.a · Define the outcome and effect of interest, then examine randomization, deviations, missing data, measurement and selective reporting. · Existing methodological links were reused for production. External originals were not reread and methodological content was not reassessed.
- M15 [Cochrane Handbook 6.5 (2024), chapter updated 2023-08](https://www.cochrane.org/authors/handbooks-and-manuals/handbook/current/chapter-15) · §15.2.4, §15.3.1–15.3.3 · Distinguish effect estimates, intervals, importance and applicability. Sample size alone does not determine precision. · Existing methodological links were reused for production. External originals were not reread and methodological content was not reassessed.
- M19 [Cochrane Handbook 6.5 (2024), chapter updated 2019-10](https://www.cochrane.org/authors/handbooks-and-manuals/handbook/current/chapter-19) · §19.1.2, §19.2.1–19.2.4 · Harm questions may require different designs, populations and follow-up from efficacy questions. Case reports do not establish incidence rates. · Existing methodological links were reused for production. External originals were not reread and methodological content was not reassessed.

## What the statuses mean

- Partly verified: Partial information from the stored summary is linked; detailed originals and content review remain incomplete.
- Unverified: Required details cannot be established within the preserved scope. This does not establish absence of effects or studies, or safety.
- Review incomplete: Review of existing content remains incomplete.
- Met: This state is used only within the relevant conditions after material verification and content review. It was not automatically assigned in this work.
- Not reported: Unreported within material actually read. Unread external material is not relabeled as unreported.
- Inaccessible: This means actual access failure. External access was not attempted in this work, so this state was not assigned.
- Not applicable: Used only with an application exception and reason based on the question scope.
- Conflicting data: This requires actual comparison of materials; no new conflict judgment was made in this work.
- Insufficient evidence for the conditions: This indicates gaps in additional material for the selected conditions. Unread material as a whole is not converted into an efficacy grade.

## Change history

2026-10-20 · Public page/materials 1.0. Public-facing views and materials were prepared from the existing 42 items. No new clinical search, verification-status change or scoring was performed.
