The Effect of Listening to Stories and Watching Cartoon Film on Pain in the Aspiration Process in Children Receiving Palliative Care

Gamze Akay

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aspiration; Syndrome

Treatments: Other: Watching Cartoon Film; Other: Listening to fairy tales

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06010771

Pediatric Nursing

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of listening to fairy tales and watching cartoons on pain in the aspiration process in play-age children receiving palliative care.

Full description

15 voluntary children with receiving palliative care, aged between 1-3 years will be randomly divided into two groups: fairy tale group and cartoon group. Interventions will be applied for 3 weeks, 1 times a day (16 sessions). No intervention will be applied to both groups besides fairy tale or cartoon intervention. The children will be assessed before, during and after. PAIN DUE TO ASPIRATION PROCEDURE will be evaluated using the FLACC Pain Scale. In addition, the heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, tidal volume and fever values of the children will be measured with the help of a bedside monitor.

Enrollment: 15 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 to 3 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being in the 1-3 age group
• Being in the palliative care service for at least 3 months
• Receiving inpatient treatment in the pediatric palliative care service
• Absence of visual and hearing anomalies
• No other chronic disease
• Having a tracheostomy

Exclusion criteria

• The family's desire to leave research.
• Deterioration of the child's condition
• The child's diagnosis of an additional chronic disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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15 participants in 2 patient groups

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Routine aspiration will be applied to the control group. No action will be taken.

Experimental Group

Experimental group

Description:

During the aspiration process, the experimental group will listen to fairy tales and watch cartoons.

Treatment:

Other: Listening to fairy tales

Other: Watching Cartoon Film