Assessment of effectiveness of Helfer Skin Tap technique on pain among adult patients receiving Intramuscular Injection.
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: 3- Administration
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2022/05/042548
- Lead Sponsor
- Ashwani Kumar Guray
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
•Adults (men and women above 18 years of age)
•Prescribed for at least two doses of Diclofenac 75mg/3ml intramuscular injection.
•Being cognitively able to rate pain scale and voluntarily signing the written informed consent.
•Being able to understand Hindi, Punjabi and English.
Exclusion Criteria
Critically ill patients
Immediate post-operative patients
Unconscious patients
Sedated adult patient with sensory perceptual alteration
Thrombocytopenia
Coagulation defects
Known allergy or hypersensitivity of the drug
Myopathies
Associated muscular atrophy
Cancer patients
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Efficacy of Helfer Skin Tap technique in reducing the pain level of the patient during intramuscular injection. <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>Timepoint: During procedure pain will be assessed by WONG BAKER FACES pain rating scale and after procedure pain will be assessed by numerical pain rating scale within 1 minute and 3 minutes of intervention. <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Comparison between the level of pain experienced during intramuscular injection using conventional technique and Helfer Skin Tap technique among adult patients receiving intramuscular injection.Timepoint: During procedure pain will be assessed by WONG BAKER FACES pain rating scale and after procedure pain will be assessed by numerical pain rating scale within 1 minute and 3 minutes of intervention. <br/ ><br> <br/ ><br>