The Effect Of Diverting The Children's Attention To A Different Point During Phlebotomy

Afyonkarahisar Health Sciences University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain and Anxiety of Children During Phlebotomy

Treatments: Device: Equipment to divert the focus of children

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04513873

2019/37

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to investigate the effect of diverting the children's attention to a different point during phlebotomy which is an invasive procedure with acute pain. This is a randomized controlled experimental study. The study was conducted with two groups: the intervention group (n=127) and the control group (n=129). The control group was applied to standard phlebotomy procedures. In contrast, the intervention group had a piece of equipment that looks like a blood tube in front of them during the phlebotomy process to divert their attention from the phlebotomy process to the equipment.

Full description

The equipment used for the intervention group was designed and developed by the researchers with the project support of TÜBİTAK BİDEB 2209A in 2016. It is an equipment that looks like a blood tube with a fixed arm on the right and a moving arm on the left with a total height of 80 cm. It has some answers to common questions of parents as well as the key concerns of the children " Will it hurt me?"

Enrollment: 256 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 7 to 12 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• making a request for the phlebotomy
• being in the 7-12 age group
• having the consent of the parent
• willing to participate in the research
• with the history of invasive procedure
• not using any medication with analgesic effect in the last 12 hours
• without any communication barriers of either child or the parent
• with a normal level of consciousness during the process
• without the history of passing out during the phlebotomy

Exclusion criteria

• not being in the 7-12 age group
• not having the consent of the parent
• not willing to participate in the research
• without the history of invasive procedure
• had medication with analgesic effect in the last 12 hours
• with communication barriers of either child or the parent
• with an abnormal level of consciousness during the process
• with the history of passing out during the phlebotomy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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256 participants in 2 patient groups

Equipment Intervention Group

Experimental group

Description:

The intervention group had equipment that looks like a blood tube in front of them during the blood collection process to divert their attention from the blood collection process to the equipment. This equipment was with a fixed arm on the right and a moving arm on the left with a total height of 80 cm as well as a red light-emitting diode(LED) to stimulate the blood collection. It had some answers to common questions of parents as well as the key concerns of the children like " Will it hurt me?". The equipment was made a musical device by loading the most popular children's songs into its database.

Treatment:

Device: Equipment to divert the focus of children

No Intervention Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard blood collection procedures were applied to the control group.