The effect of environmental and behavioral interventions on physiological and behavioral responses of preterm infants candidate for intravenous catheterization in neonatal intensive care units
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Premature infants.28 completed weeks or more but less than 37 completed weeks (196 completed days but less than 259 completed days) of gestation.
- Registration Number
- IRCT2017011231892N1
- Lead Sponsor
- Martyr Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 82
Inclusion Criteria
Inclusion criteria; gestational age of 30-37 weeks;admission to neonatal intensive care unit; requiring administration of intravenous fluids and catheter; constant positive airways pressure (N-CPAP); no use of sedatives? anticonvulsants? or anesthetics; no comorbidities such as congenital abnormalities, neurological problems, or cerebral intra-ventricular hemorrhage and seizures and;fully conscious infant; Exclusion criteria; parents withdrawing participation of their infant; failure to insert intravenous catheter in two attempts; critical illness of infant in the process of its disease interfering with interventions; lack of response to N-CPAP .
Exclusion Criteria
Not provided
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Physiological responses. Timepoint: 2 minutes before venipuncture, during venipuncture, 5 and 30 minutes after venipuncture. Method of measurement: Pulse monitoring, observation.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Behavioral responses. Timepoint: 2 minutes before venipuncture, during catheter insertion, 5 and 30 minutes after venipuncture. Method of measurement: NIPS scale & EDIN scale.