Atraumatic Care Practice From the Child and Parent Perspective

Ondokuz Mayıs University219 enrolled

Overview

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.

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 Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

SINGLE

Enrollment

219

Conditions

Nurse's Role

Interventions

Atraumatic nursing careBEHAVIORAL

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

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 5 YearsMax age: 10 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

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

Locations (1)

Hatice Uzşen

Samsun, Atakum, Turkey (Türkiye)

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Children's Fear Scale

Children's Fear Scale was to measure fear in children who would undergo painful medical procedures

Time frame: baseline, pre-intervention and immediately after the intervention

Wong-Baker Faces Pain Rating Scale

This scale is used for 3-18 age group children to describe their pain.

Time frame: immediately after the intervention

Secondary Outcomes

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.

Time frame: immediately after the intervention

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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