Atraumatic Care Practice From the Child and Parent Perspective

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Nurse's Role
• Interventions: Behavioral: Atraumatic nursing care

• Registration Number: NCT06172972
• Lead Sponsor: Ondokuz Mayıs University

Brief Summary

It is important for pediatric nurses to apply atraumatic care while providing care to children and their families. Pediatric nurses should use methods appropriate for the child's age and developmental period within the scope of atraumatic care.

Detailed Description

The use of atraumatic care approaches such as supporting the active participation of the family in the care of the child, using therapeutic communication techniques with parents and children during procedures, providing emotional support, reducing pain during painful procedures, using techniques to distract the child's attention during medical procedures, informing parents about the procedures to be performed on their children, and supporting parents and teaching techniques to cope with stress is recommended to be used by the nurses.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2023-03-01
• Primary Completion: 2023-06-01
• Study Completion: 2023-06-30
• Study First Submitted: 2023-11-27
• Status Verified: 2023-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-12-14
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-12-14
• Study First Posted: 2023-12-15
• Last Update Posted: 2023-12-15

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 219

Inclusion Criteria

• being able to speak Turkish
• being between 5-10 years of age
• having no visual, intellectual or neurological disabilities
• having the phlebotomy procedure carried out with a single attempt
• not having a disease that causes chronic pain
• being accompanied by either mother or father during the procedure
• not taking painkillers or sedating drugs before the phlebotomy procedure

Exclusion Criteria

• being younger than 5 years or older than 10 years
• having visual, audio, or speech impairments
• having a disease that causes chronic pain
• with a history of sedative and analgesic use within 24 h prior to admission
• filling out the data collection forms incompletely

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Atraumatic nursing care group	Atraumatic nursing care	Before the phlebotomy, children in the intervention group were allowed to choose a distracting method (foam balloons, stress balls, musical books) to be occupied with during the procedure. It was ensured that the parent was staying with the child and that the child played with this material during the procedure (making a foam balloon, squeezing the ball with the hand in which the procedure was not carried out and reading the book with the parent

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Children's Fear Scale	baseline, pre-intervention and immediately after the intervention	Children's Fear Scale was to measure fear in children who would undergo painful medical procedures
Wong-Baker Faces Pain Rating Scale	immediately after the intervention	This scale is used for 3-18 age group children to describe their pain.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Assessment of Parental Satisfaction-Visual Analog Scale	immediately after the intervention	Parent satisfaction scores were collected using a question about care satisfaction during the phlebotomy procedure from each child's parent.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Hatice Uzşen; 🇹🇷 Samsun, Atakum, Turkey