Determining the Effect of Breathing Exercise Applied to Children Aged 6-12 Before Enema on Anxiety, Fear and Pain

KTO Karatay University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Child, Only; Distention; Constipation

Treatments: Behavioral: Breathing exercise

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05508022

KaratayUF

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this study, it was aimed to determine the effect of breathing exercise applied before the enema procedure, which causes fear, pain and anxiety in children aged 6-12 years who applied to the pediatric emergency service, on fear, pain and anxiety in children. This research is in pretest-posttest, parallel group, randomized controlled experimental design.

The universe of the research consists of children aged 6-12 years who applied to the pediatric emergency department of Iğdır State Hospital (Turkey) between May 2022 and June 2022.

Full description

In this study, it was aimed to determine the effect of breathing exercise applied before the enema procedure, which causes fear, pain and anxiety in children aged 6-12 years who applied to the pediatric emergency service, on fear, pain and anxiety in children. This research is in pretest-posttest, parallel group, randomized controlled experimental design.

The universe of the research consists of children aged 6-12 years who applied to the pediatric emergency department of Iğdır State Hospital (Turkey) between May 2022 and June 2022.

In the study, the pre-test scores of the pain, fear and anxiety levels of the children were compared and it was found that the pain, fear and anxiety levels of the intervention and control groups were moderate, and there was no difference between the groups. This result is important in terms of evaluating the effectiveness of the initiative.

In the study, a significant difference was found between the pain, fear and anxiety levels of the intervention and control groups after breathing exercise. Accordingly, the pain, fear and anxiety levels of the intervention group were significantly lower than the control group.

Enrollment: 106 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 6 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being between 6-12 years of age
• Administering an enema because of constipation or distension
• There should be no obstacle to the enema procedure
• Child and parent agree to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Having a mental disability
• Having any problems with hearing, vision, hearing
• Taking analgesics within the last 6 hours
• Having an additional illness that may cause pain

Removal criteria were as follows:

• Developing complications during the enema procedure (intestinal perforation, bleeding, etc.)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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106 participants in 1 patient group

Breathing Exercise

Experimental group

Description:

Breathing exercises will be applied to the participants in the experimental group.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Breathing exercise