The Effect of Video-Based Educational Content for Parents and Children on Anxiety, Fear, and Pain During Blood Draw in Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Dokuz Eylül University (DEU)

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Blood Drawing Procedure; Fear Anxiety; Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Video-Based Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07152665

DokuzEU-5

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to examine the effect of video-based educational content prepared for parents and children on anxiety, fear, and pain levels experienced by children aged 4-7 during venipuncture procedures.

Full description

This study aim to examine the effect of video-based educational content prepared for parents and children on anxiety, fear, and pain levels experienced by children aged 4-7 during venipuncture procedures.The study a single-centre, randomized controlled trial. The study will conduct in the pediatric phlebotomy unit of a university hospital's central laboratory in Turkey.

This randomized controlled trial will included 80 children aged 4-7, randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. The control group will receive routine clinical care before, during, and after venipuncture. In the intervention group, children and their parents will shown video-based educational content prior to the procedure. Data collection tools included a Child and Family Information Form, the Children's pain, Fear, and the Child Anxiety Scale. The normality of fear, anxiety, and pain scale scores will evaluate with the Shapiro-Wilk test. Repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) will applied to compare scale scores across groups and time points. Within-group comparisons will conduct using one-way repeated measures ANOVA, while between-group differences at each time point were assessed with independent samples t-tests.

Enrollment: 76 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 4 to 7 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Children who will between the ages of 4-7,
• Children who will Blood collection procedure
• Have no cognitive development problems,

Exclusion criteria

• Children who will not want to participate in the study,
• Leave the research during the study,
• Have an audio-visual disorder that could prevent the use of video

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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76 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimantel

Experimental group

Description:

Parents of children in the intervention group will inform that the educational videos used in the study aim to reduce the child's pain, fear, and anxiety. An informational video willprepare by the researchers will show to the parents, while an age-appropriate video explaining the blood collection process will shown to the children. The video content wil structured in accordance with the existing literature Characters featured in the parent and child videos will select, and separate scenarios for each group will developed by the researchers. Video recordings will conduct outside of working hours in the blood collection unit, accompanied by a professional cameraman. To evaluate the feasibility and comprehensibility of the videos, a pilot study will conduct with five children and their parents who will not included in the main study. The parent video addressed the attitudes and behaviors that parents should exhibit before, during, and after the blood collection procedure.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Video-Based Education

No Intervention: Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

No intervention