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Effect of Toy and Mask Use on Pain and Anxiety in Children

Turkey (Türkiye)162 participantsStarted 2022-02-15

Plain-language summary

Invasive painful interventions such as diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, blood sampling, injection and vaccine administration are among the greatest fears of children and lead to undesirable experiences both in children and in parents and healthcare personnel due to children's reactions to pain (İnal \&Canbulat 2015;Tuna 2014; Wolyniez et al. 2013). It is important for healthcare personnel to spend additional time to manage the child's pain, anxiety and fear of medical procedures (Longobardi et al. 2019, Chen et al. 2020). The American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Pain Society recommend alleviating or minimizing stress and pain, including practices such as venipuncture (Özel \&Çetin 2020). Pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic techniques are applied to reduce the emotional and physical effects of painful intervention (Özel \&Çetin 2020). This study was planned to investigate the effect of the nurse's use of a mask with a cartoon character and the child's playing with a sound and light toy on the child's pain and parental anxiety during peripheral intravenous catheterization.

Who can participate

Age range4 Years – 6 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria: * The parent's verbal and written acceptance of the informed consent form, * The child has not been given any medication with analgesic effect in the last 6 hours, * Opening the vascular access on the first attempt, * Body temperature between 36.5-37.2⁰C, * The child does not have a chronic disease that requires frequent invasive procedures, * The child does not have a disease that can cause chronic pain, * The child does not have a mental or neurological disability that would affect participation in the research Exclusion Criteria: * Failure of the parent to verbally and in writing accept the informed consent form for participation in the study, * The child has taken a drug with analgesic, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory effect in the last 6 hours, * Failure to open the vascular access on the first attempt, * The child's body temperature is above 37.2⁰C, * Have a chronic disease that requires frequent invasive procedures, * The child has a disease that can cause chronic pain, * The child has an intellectual or neurological disability.

What they're measuring

Change in children's pain level

Timeframe: 2 minutes before the procedure and 2 minutes after the procedure

Trial details

NCT IDNCT05892107

SponsorIstanbul University - Cerrahpasa

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2023-07-15

Contact for this trial

Songül OKŞAR

+90 +90 212 414 3000 songul.gezer@iuc.edu.tr