Atraumatic Care Practice From the Child and Parent Perspective

Nurse's Role Clinical Trial

Official title:

Atraumatic Care Practice From the Child and Parent Perspective

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06172972
• Other study ID #: Atraumatic Care
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: December 2023
• Source: Ondokuz Mayis University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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.

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 219
• Est. completion date: June 30, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: June 1, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 5 Years to 10 Years

Eligibility

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

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Nurse's Role

Intervention

Behavioral:
• Atraumatic nursing care
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

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	Hatice Uzsen	Samsun	Atakum

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Ondokuz Mayis University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Children's Fear Scale	Children's Fear Scale was to measure fear in children who would undergo painful medical procedures	baseline, pre-intervention and immediately after the intervention
Primary	Wong-Baker Faces Pain Rating Scale	This scale is used for 3-18 age group children to describe their pain.	immediately after the intervention
Secondary	Assessment of Parental Satisfaction-Visual Analog Scale	Parent satisfaction scores were collected using a question about care satisfaction during the phlebotomy procedure from each child's parent.	immediately after the intervention