Facilitated Tucking Position and Reiki Efficacy in Orogastric Tube Insertion

Sibel Küçükoğlu

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infant, Premature, Diseases; Premature; Feeding Behavior

Treatments: Other: Reiki; Other: Facilitated Tucking Position

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05801640

SelcukH01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to determine the effects of faciliated tucking and reiki given manually during orogastric tube insertion in preterm infants treated in the NICU on stress, pain and physiological parameter (heartbeat, blood pressure, SpO2 and respiratory rate) levels.

Full description

Regardless of the severity and duration, preterm infants give physiological and behavioral responses to a painful application. While infants show behavioral responses such as crying, changes in facial expressions, acceleration or deceleration in motor movements during painful interventions, they may subjectively show changes in physiological parameters such as heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and decrease in saturation value. Because preterm infants are sensitive to many stress factors and due to reasons such as separation from the mother during the treatment process, environments with excessive light, sound and temperature changes, and the absence of a single caregiver. They do not yet have the physiological maturity to cope with painful interventions. This randomized controlled trial was planned to determine the changes in stress, pain, and physiological parameters of faciliated tucking and reiki administered during orogastric tube insertion in preterm infants 32-37 weeks of gestation.

Enrollment: 45 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 32 to 37 weeks old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 32-37 Gestational weeks,
• From the postnatal 3rd day,
• Feeding with orogastric tube
• Apgar >5

Exclusion criteria

• Premature infants with congenital anomaly, malformation
• Premature infants on mechanical ventilator
• Premature infants receiving sedation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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45 participants in 3 patient groups

Faciliated tucking position

Experimental group

Description:

Experiment group will receive faciliated tucking position throughout the OG inserting. The faciliated tucking position will be applied 3 minutes before the orogastric (OG) tube is inserted. This intervention will be applied throughout the OG inserting process. The application will continue for 3 more minutes after the OG is inserted.

Treatment:

Other: Facilitated Tucking Position

Reiki

Experimental group

Description:

Experiment group will receive reiki throughout the OG inserting. This group will be take reiki 3 minutes before the orogastric (OG) tube is inserted. This intervention will be applied throughout the OG inserting process. The intervention will continue for 3 more minutes after the OG is inserted.

Treatment:

Other: Reiki

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The routine OG insertion procedure of the clinic will be performed for the control group infants without any intervention. The group will received no further intervention.