This prospective study is planned as a randomized controlled study with the purpose of determining the effect of Mother's Touch and Nurse's Therapeutic Touch on pain levels and crying times by newborns during heel blood collection.
Among the non-pharmacological methods frequently used to reduce the effects of invasive interventions on the newborn; Practices such as reducing environmental stimuli, individualized developmental care, music therapy, breast milk, pacifier giving, sucrose, non-nutritive sucking, oral sucrose, kangaroo care, facilitated tucking position, and sweet solutions, massage and touching, positioning, nesting, kangaroo care, fetal positioning are included. This study is a prospective, randomized and controlled trial. In this study aim, the effect of Mother's Touch and Nurse's Therapeutic Touch applied during heel blood collection on the pain levels and crying times in newborns will be examined. Sample of the study consisted of a total of 120 newborns who met the sample selection criteria and were selected via randomization method. Newborns were divided into three groups; Mother's Touch group, Nurse's Therapeutic Touch group, and Control group. Data were collected using the Infant-family Information Form, NIPS-Neonatal Infant Pain Scale, and Crying Follow-up Form.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
120
Heel blood will be taken while the infant was Mother's Touch. Mother's touch will be applied to the infants before, during and after the procedure.
Heel blood will be taken while the infant was Nurse's Therapeutic Touch.Therapeutic Touch will be applied to the infants before, during and after the procedure.
Burdur Bucak State Hospital
Burdur, Bucak, Turkey (Türkiye)
NIPS (Neonatal Infant Pain Scale)
It was developed in 1993 to evaluate interventional pain in newborns. Its Turkish adaptation was made in 1999. NIPS is an assessment tool that focuses on six behavioral responses of newborns: facial expressions, crying, breathing, arm movements, leg movements, and arousal. A score between 0 and 7 is obtained from the scale, and as the score obtained from the scale increases, the pain of newborns also increases. In the Turkish adaptation study of the scale, the Cronbach's alpha value was calculated as 0.83 before the procedure, 0.83 during the procedure and 0.86 after the procedure.
Time frame: during the heel blood collection procedures (10 minutes)
Crying times
Duration of crying were recorded.
Time frame: during the heel blood collection procedures (average 10 minutes)
Processing time
Duration of heel blood collection procedure were recorded.
Time frame: during the heel blood collection procedures (average 10 minutes)
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