Atraumatic Care Practice From the Child and Parent Perspective

Ondokuz Mayıs University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Nurse's Role

Treatments: Behavioral: Atraumatic nursing care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06172972

Atraumatic Care

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is important for pediatric nurses to apply atraumatic care while providing care to children and their families. Pediatric nurses should use methods appropriate for the child's age and developmental period within the scope of atraumatic care.

Full description

The use of atraumatic care approaches such as supporting the active participation of the family in the care of the child, using therapeutic communication techniques with parents and children during procedures, providing emotional support, reducing pain during painful procedures, using techniques to distract the child's attention during medical procedures, informing parents about the procedures to be performed on their children, and supporting parents and teaching techniques to cope with stress is recommended to be used by the nurses.

Enrollment: 219 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 5 to 10 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• being able to speak Turkish
• being between 5-10 years of age
• having no visual, intellectual or neurological disabilities
• having the phlebotomy procedure carried out with a single attempt
• not having a disease that causes chronic pain
• being accompanied by either mother or father during the procedure
• not taking painkillers or sedating drugs before the phlebotomy procedure

Exclusion criteria

• being younger than 5 years or older than 10 years
• having visual, audio, or speech impairments
• having a disease that causes chronic pain
• with a history of sedative and analgesic use within 24 h prior to admission
• filling out the data collection forms incompletely

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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219 participants in 2 patient groups

Atraumatic nursing care group

Experimental group

Description:

Before the phlebotomy, children in the intervention group were allowed to choose a distracting method (foam balloons, stress balls, musical books) to be occupied with during the procedure. It was ensured that the parent was staying with the child and that the child played with this material during the procedure (making a foam balloon, squeezing the ball with the hand in which the procedure was not carried out and reading the book with the parent

Treatment:

Behavioral: Atraumatic nursing care

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

The parents of the children in the control group were ensured to stay with their children during the procedure, and the child's attention was distracted by the nurse asking questions about the child's name, age, and what grade the child was in. This is one of the methods frequently used in Turkiye.