Does selecting the site of injection based on anthropometric indices and body shape reduces the pain of injection?
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- pain of intramuscular injection.
- Registration Number
- IRCT20180826040875N1
- Lead Sponsor
- o funding
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 162
Inclusion Criteria
Participants in the research have written consent
There is no problem communicating (example: hearing, vision, speech, common language)
At least 18 years old and maximum 65 years
Exclusion Criteria
Having very severe pain due to the disease
Having a physical (motor or sensory) problem
Toughness and tenderness and pain at the injection site
Having a former injection site in the last two weeks
Patients with psychopathy, diabetes,neuropathy, delirium, dementia, coagulopathy, and those had an extreme fear of injections
Use of opiate or non-opiate analgesics 6 hours before enrollment
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Severity of pain after intramuscular injection in gluteal muscles. Timepoint: After injection. Method of measurement: The Visual Analogue Scale (VAS).
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method