Distraction and Vibration for Minimizing Pain During Childhood Vaccination

Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceicao204 enrolled

Overview

Vaccine pain control is one of the actions suggested to support the delivery of vaccines that are on a vaccine schedule, since pain and anxiety associated with vaccines are among the main reasons why children and their parents fail to do them properly. Thus, it is very important to investigate which interventions can bring greater benefit in the control of pain.This is a randomized clinical trial aiming to assess the impact of video distraction and vibration device on pain during the vaccination of children between one and three years.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

PREVENTION

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

204

Conditions

Pain Due to Childhood Vaccination

Interventions

Buzzy specific vibration deviceDEVICE

It is a device that produces vibration

DistractionBEHAVIORAL

The distraction will be obtained through tablet with videos

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 1 YearMax age: 3 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Children between 1 year and 3 years, 11 months and 29 days of life. * Be accompanied by legal guardian. * Apply only one injectable vaccine at the time of the research. Exclusion Criteria: * Refuses to sign the consent form. * Have already been included in the study previously.

Locations (1)

Hospital Moinhos de Vento

Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Duration of crying in seconds

The duration of crying will be used as surrogate endpoint to assess pain

Time frame: Through study completion, an average 6 months

Secondary Outcomes

The satisfaction of parents

The satisfaction of parents will be evaluated through a questionnaire

Time frame: Through study completion, an average 6 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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