Intramuscular Benzathine Penicillin Injection Procedure

Saglik Bilimleri Universitesi

Status: Completed

Conditions: Injection Site Discomfort

Treatments: Other: Intramuscular Injection

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04420559

18/18

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was the determination of the effect of applying VR and DC distraction methods on patients' pain and satisfaction levels during IM benzathine penicillin injection.

The research hypothesis:

1. Are Virtual Reality and Distraction Card effective in reducing pain due to injection of IM benzathine penicillin?
2. Does the use of Virtual Reality and Distraction Card during the injection process of IM benzathine penicillin have an effect on patient satisfaction?

Enrollment: 91 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• agree to participate in the research,
• being over the age of 18,
• being native speaker,
• not having vision and hearing problems,
• being prescribed benzathine penicillin with a dose of 1.200.000 IU,
• being experienced of IM injection,
• not having IM injection for the last 1 month

Exclusion criteria

• volunteers who have scar, incision, lipodystrophy, abscess, necrosis, hematoma, ecchymosis, infection, pain and paralysis at the VG site
• volunteers are excluded if the injection process cannot be performed at one time

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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91 participants in 3 patient groups

Virtual Reality

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Intramuscular Injection

Distraction Card

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Intramuscular Injection

Control

No Intervention group