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Nonpharmacological Methods for Children in Procedural Pain

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Istanbul Medeniyet University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Procedural Anxiety
Procedural Pain

Treatments

Other: Distraction cards
Other: Buzzy
Other: Virtual reality

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04421430
2017-10/9

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of the distraction cards, virtual reality and Buzzy® methods on venipuncture pain and anxiety in children aged 7-12 years.

Full description

The International Guide to Pediatric Anesthesia (Good Practice in Postoperative and Procedural Pain) recommends pharmacological and nonpharmacological methods to effectively manage and prevent acute procedural pain in children. Nonpharmacological methods alone or in combination with pharmacological methods help reduce pain, and therefore, have become popular especially in recent years. For pain management, nonpharmacological methods are easy to use, and cost- and time-effective methods with no side effects. Studies have evaluated a large number of pharmacological and nonpharmacological interventions for procedural pain management in children. However, most of those interventions are not used by healthcare professionals because they are expensive, time-consuming or hard to use. Therefore, easy-to-use, practical, non-invasive, cost-effective, and reusable nonpharmacological methods, such as distraction cards, virtual reality and Buzzy®, can be used especially in acute settings.

Enrollment

160 patients

Sex

All

Ages

7 to 12 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Due to undergo venipuncture for blood testing
  • Suitable for venipuncture at antecubital location using a 21 Gauge X 1.5 inch needle
  • Due to undergo venipuncture under the same environmental conditions (phlebotomy seat, heat, light, noise, etc.)
  • Due to undergo venipuncture at the first attempt

Exclusion criteria

Children;

  • had chronic diseases
  • had neuro-developmentally delayed
  • had visual, audio, or speech impairments
  • were hospital stay for treatment
  • had a history of sedative, analgesic or narcotic use within 24 hours before admission

Trial design

Primary purpose

Supportive Care

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

160 participants in 4 patient groups

Distraction cards group
Experimental group
Description:
Distraction cards was applied to the children in this group during the venipuncture procedure.
Treatment:
Other: Distraction cards
Virtual reality group
Experimental group
Description:
Virtual reality intervention was applied to the children in this group during the venipuncture procedure.
Treatment:
Other: Virtual reality
Buzzy® group
Experimental group
Description:
Buzzy® was applied to the children in this group during the venipuncture procedure.
Treatment:
Other: Buzzy
Control group
No Intervention group
Description:
The control group received the routine venipuncture procedure and did not receive any other non-pharmacological intervention.

Trial contacts and locations

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