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Buzzy Distraction During Venipuncture

Not Applicable
Completed
Conditions
Pain Relief
Interventions
Device: Buzzy® device
Device: Hand-held computer
Registration Number
NCT02969902
Lead Sponsor
IRCCS Burlo Garofolo
Brief Summary

Venipuncture is one of the most common iatrogenic painful and stressful procedures performed on children. Interventions aimed at reducing the distress related to this experience are widely and strongly recommended. Pain and anxiety management is even more essential because it may modify children's memory for procedural pain and the subsequent acceptance of later health care painful interventions. Distraction is the most studied psychological technique to relieve venipuncture related pain and distress, with a strong evidence supporting its efficacy in children and adolescents.

In recent years several studies showed the effectiveness of a specific tool named Buzzy® (MMJ Labs, Atlanta GA, USA), in relieving pain and distress in children. Buzzy combines distraction and physical analgesia (vibration and cold) and it was positively tested during venipuncture, intravenous cannulation and painful injections in children. Even though its efficacy it's well established, most of the published trials did not compare Buzzy with other interventions, so that little data are available about its usefulness compared with other distractions techniques.

Hand-held computers are reusable tools, which offer a technological-based active distraction. There is evidence supporting their used during painful procedures such as venipuncture and a recent published study showed that hand-held computer distraction was as effective as nurse-led passive distraction techniques in children.

The aim of this study is to compare the effectiveness of Buzzy versus hand-held computer in pain relief during venipuncture.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
COMPLETED
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
200
Inclusion Criteria
  • children from 4 to 12 years of age needing venipuncture
Exclusion Criteria
  • the presence of damage, denuded or broken skin in the site of Buzzy application;
  • use of topical, enteral or parenteral analgesics within eight hours before enrolment;
  • the presence of cognitive impairment or the inability to report pain verbally;
  • the presence of chronic disease, included epilepsy, or of diseases associated with cold hypersensitivity (i.e., sickle cell anaemia, Raynaud's disease).

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Buzzy® deviceBuzzy® deviceThe Buzzy® device is applied just above the selected site of the venipuncture; an ice pack is attached under the device; the device is turned on and after 15 second the venipuncture is made.
Hand-held computerHand-held computerUsing an hand-held computer, children start to play with an age-appropriate videogame three minutes before the procedure. They continue to play during the venipuncture.
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Self-reported painWithin 5 minutes after the procedure

Children from 4 to 7 years of age record their pain using the Faces Pain Scale-Revised (FPS-R); children from 8 to 12 years using a Numerical Rating Scale, with scores from zero to 10.

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Pain evaluated by parentsWithin 5 minutes after the procedure

Pain evaluated using a Numerical Rating Scale, with scores from zero to 10

Success at first attemptIntraprocedural

Percentage of success at first attempt

Pain evaluated by nursesWithin 5 minutes after the procedure

Pain evaluated using a Numerical Rating Scale, with scores from zero to 10

Adverse eventsUp to 15 minutes after the procedure

The number and the type of adverse events

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