NCT05947877

Non-Pharmacological Nursing Pain Management for Preterm Infants

Effectiveness of Interventional Non-Pharmacological Nursing Pain Management for Preterm Infants at Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 105 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Baghdad · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 32 Weeks – 37 Weeks
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

A randomized controlled trial will be conducted to examine the effect of non-pharmacological nursing pain management strategies in alleviating pain among preterm infants. The study includes a simple random sample of 105 preterm infants with CGA 32- \< 37 weeks were randomly assigned into five groups: routine care (n = 21), breast milk (n = 21), oral sucrose (n = 21), KMC (n = 21), nesting position (n = 21). PIPP-R will be used to subjectively assess the pain intensity after heel stick, and salivary cortisol measures will be used to objectively assess the pain intensity in NICU at Children Welfare Teaching Hospital/ Medical City Complex in Baghdad City.

Conditions

• Pain Management

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Non-pharmacological pain management strategies	Non-pharmacological pain management strategies

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-01-02
• Primary completion: 2023-02-28
• Completion: 2023-02-28
• First posted: 2023-07-17
• Last updated: 2023-07-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Iraq