Non-Nutritive Sucking and Swaddling for Pain Relief in Term Neonates: Randomised Controlled Trial

Sociedade Hospital Samaritano

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Pain

Treatments: Other: Non-nutritive sucking; Other: Swaddling

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00547807

SHS 52/06

Details and patient eligibility

About

Non pharmacological approaches are important in pain control in neonates, specially in term healthy neonates. Non-nutritive sucking and swaddling are considered effective strategies for pain control in these population, but the effect in their association are not clear until now. The hypothesis of the study is that association between non-nutritive sucking and swaddling reduces pain scores resulting from venepuncture compared to non-nutritive sucking alone.

Enrollment: 34 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 2 to 5 days old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Term healthy neonates

Exclusion criteria

• NICU admission

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)