Pain in Newborn Heel Blood Collection

Ataturk University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infant, Newborn, Disease; Pain, Acute

Treatments: Other: White Noise; Other: Yakson Touch

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05510271

ATA.0.01.00/124

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of white noise and therapeutic touch on pain in newborn heel blood collection.Questions including the sex of the newborns, postnatal age, gestational age, birth weight, height, head and chest circumference, feeding style, nutritional status in the last half hour, and previous heel blood collection were collected with the "Information Form".The Newborn Infant Pain Scale (NIPS) was used to evaluate the pain levels of newborns.

Enrollment: 65 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 37 to 42 weeks old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• gestational week 37 and above,
• fasting time < 1 hour,
• without comorbidity and congenital anomalies,
• not receiving oxygen or mechanical respiratory support,
• no analgesic sedation before the procedure
• neonates with stable physiological findings before the procedure

Exclusion criteria

• newborns whose heel blood cannot be taken at once

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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65 participants in 3 patient groups

White Noise

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: White Noise

Yakson touch

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Yakson Touch

Control

No Intervention group