NCT06172972

Atraumatic Care Practice From the Child and Parent Perspective

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 219 (actual)
• Sponsor: Ondokuz Mayıs University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 5 Years – 10 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

It is important for pediatric nurses to apply atraumatic care while providing care to children and their families. Pediatric nurses should use methods appropriate for the child's age and developmental period within the scope of atraumatic care.

Detailed description

The use of atraumatic care approaches such as supporting the active participation of the family in the care of the child, using therapeutic communication techniques with parents and children during procedures, providing emotional support, reducing pain during painful procedures, using techniques to distract the child's attention during medical procedures, informing parents about the procedures to be performed on their children, and supporting parents and teaching techniques to cope with stress is recommended to be used by the nurses.

Conditions

• Nurse's Role

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Atraumatic nursing care	Children in the intervention group were allowed to choose a distracting method (foam balloons, stress balls, musical books) to be occupied with during the procedure

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-03-01
• Primary completion: 2023-06-01
• Completion: 2023-06-30
• First posted: 2023-12-15
• Last updated: 2023-12-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)