The Effectiveness of Two Different Methods in Heel Blood Collection

Nigde Omer Halisdemir University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infant Behavior; Pain

Treatments: Other: ShotBlocker; Other: Kinesio taping

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06436391

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Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of 2 non-pharmacological methods that will reduce the traumatizing effect of routine heel pricking in infant babies within the scope of the metabolic endocrine screening program. One of the interventions to be used in the study is kinesio taping, a type of taping that does not contain any medication. Another intervention is Shotblocker, which does not belong to any drug or device group.

Full description

Studies on pain indicate that severe pain experienced in the early period of life causes a weakening of the cognitive functions of the infant, especially by shrinking the thalamic volume. Pain management in the neonatal period aims to help the infant cope with pain by relieving it. For effective pain management, it is very important to diagnose and evaluate the baby's response to pain early and accurately within a multidisciplinary team approach, and to select appropriate interventions to alleviate the pain experience. It is stated that nonpharmacological methods in relieving procedural pain strengthen the baby's natural regulation and coping mechanisms when faced with painful intervention and reduce pain and stress. For this reason, this study aimed to determine the effect of kinesiology taping and ShotBlocker applied to the heel during heel blood collection in infant babies on pain, comfort and crying time.

Enrollment: 72 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 38 weeks to 41 months old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Term birth infants,
• Infants with a birth weight of 2500 g and above
• Infants with stable clinical condition
• Infants who can perform vital functions without support,
• Infants who were fed, calm and not crying within one hour before the procedure will be included.

Exclusion criteria

• With a genetic or congenital anomaly,
• Neurological, cardiological and metabolic diseases,
• In need of respiratory support,
• Infants receiving analgesics, antiepileptics before the procedure will be excluded.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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72 participants in 3 patient groups

Kinesio tape group

Experimental group

Description:

To the infants in the experimental group; Kinesio tape application will be performed by an experienced physiotherapist whom has a M.Sc. degree and kinesio tape certificate.

Treatment:

Other: Kinesio taping

ShotBlocker group

Experimental group

Description:

To the infants in the second experimental group; Shotblocker application will be performed by another researcher.

Treatment:

Other: ShotBlocker

Control group

No Intervention group

Description:

These infants will not receive any intervention in the heel prick procedure. Routine heel blood collection will be performed.