Aim of my intervention to test the effectiveness of using the manual pressure application and shotblocker for relief insulin injection pain in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
108
Right thumb pressure was be applied to the appropriate inject site of insulin therapy for 10 seconds, then immediately inject the insulin. The children's pain intensity during and immediately after insulin injection scores will be rated by the children themselves and a researcher using the Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale.
Apply the shotblocker and press firmly with its multiple blunt protrusions on contact points of skin. After that, give an insulin injection through the central opening. The children's pain intensity during and immediately after insulin injection scores will be rated by the children themselves and a researcher using the Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale.
Mansura University Children's Hospital
Al Mansurah, Egypt
Pain Intensity
The children's pain intensity during and immediately after insulin injection scores will be rated by the children themselves and a researcher using the Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale.
Time frame: during and immediately after insulin injection
Pain Intensity
The children's pain intensity during and immediately after insulin injection scores will be rated by the children themselves and a researcher using the Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale.
Time frame: Immediately after insulin injection
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The children's pain intensity scores during and immediately after insulin injection will be rated by the children themselves and a researcher by using the Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale to control the group who don't receive the previous method of intervention and receive routine care only.