NCT05510271

Pain in Newborn Heel Blood Collection

The Effect of White Noise and Therapeutic Touch on Pain in Newborn Heel Blood Collection

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 65 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ataturk University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 37 Weeks – 42 Weeks
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of white noise and therapeutic touch on pain in newborn heel blood collection.Questions including the sex of the newborns, postnatal age, gestational age, birth weight, height, head and chest circumference, feeding style, nutritional status in the last half hour, and previous heel blood collection were collected with the "Information Form".The Newborn Infant Pain Scale (NIPS) was used to evaluate the pain levels of newborns.

Conditions

• Infant, Newborn, Disease
• Pain, Acute

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	White Noise	Orhan OSMAN's song "Don't Let Your Baby Cry-2" from the "Kolik" album was used.
OTHER	Yakson Touch	In order to transfer the Ki energy to the baby, he took a deep breath and gathered the universal energy in his palms, intending the baby's well-being and healing. The researcher applied the Yakson touch by covering the abdomen and chest of the newborn with his right hand (dominant hand) while the newborn was in the supine position, and supported the baby's back and hips with his left hand.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-05-01
• Primary completion: 2022-07-30
• Completion: 2022-08-30
• First posted: 2022-08-22
• Last updated: 2024-02-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)