NCT05301088

Pain and Fear of Venous Blood Collection in Children

The Effect of Chocolate Smell and Stress Ball on Pain and Fear in Venous Blood Collection in Children

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 126 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ataturk University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 6 Years – 12 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Nurses are in the position of primary health care provider in relieving children's pain and fears of bloodletting in the wards where they work. As a result of this study, it is aimed to encourage nurses to apply non-pharmacological interventions during painful medical procedures, to facilitate the provision of necessary and different means of distraction to blood collection services, and to contribute to the development of in-house health policies and the preparation of appropriate clinical guides and to add an innovative perspective.

Conditions

• Pain
• Fear

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Chocolate Scent	Chocolate Scent:Children in this group will be given chocolate scent sniffing as a non-pharmacological distraction method. Stress Ball:Stress ball squeezing will be used as a non-pharmacological distraction method for children in this group.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-04-01
• Primary completion: 2022-05-30
• Completion: 2022-06-30
• First posted: 2022-03-29
• Last updated: 2022-07-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)