Children's Blood Draws: Lavender Study

Corlu State Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain Management; Nursing Caries

Treatments: Other: CONTROL GROUP; Other: LAVENDER ESSENCE GROUP

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06933771

Çorlu State Hospital

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to show the effect of lavender scent used to reduce pain and fear during blood collection in children aged 7-14.

Full description

The children in the experimental group were given lavender scent before the blood collection procedure. No additional intervention was made to the children in the control group. The pain and fear scores of both groups were evaluated.

Enrollment: 102 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 14 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

children between the ages of 7-14 who applied to the blood collection unit, who had no mental neurological, hearing, speech, vison disorders

Exclusion criteria

who were not allergic to lavender essence, who were not diagnosed with asthma, allergies, epilepsy, dermatitis who had not taken analgesics in the last 6 hours were included in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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102 participants in 2 patient groups

LAVENDER ESSENCE GROUP

Active Comparator group

Description:

the researcher explained to the children in the intervention group and their parents how to apply the lavender essence and what kind of a plant lavender is, and showed the bottle of essential oil to be used during the procedure. A 5x5 cm sponge with 2 drops of almond oil that contains 1% lavender essence was located on the shoulder of the children to smell for 5 minutes.

Treatment:

Other: LAVENDER ESSENCE GROUP

CONTROL GROUP

Sham Comparator group

Description:

no intervention was made.

Treatment:

Other: CONTROL GROUP