NCT06415240

Effect of Facilitated Tucking and Gentle Human Touch on Procedural Pain Among Neonates

Assistant Clinical Nurse Manager Working in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 159 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Day – 28 Days
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a Randomized Control Trial intended to investigate the effect of two non-pharmacological interventions on procedural pain among neonates.

Detailed description

The Study Design is a Randomized Control Trial, intended to investigate the effect of facilitated tucking and gentle human touch on procedural pain among neonates (age 28 days). Neonatal Infant Pain Scale will be used for pain scoring, data will be collected by recording demographic variables for all neonates and then capturing a video recording for pain scoring by an independent research assistant.

Conditions

• Non Pharmacological Pain Management

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Facilitated Tucking	Facilitated Tucking is a position to be adopted for pain relief in neonates.
OTHER	Gentle Human Touch	while gentle human touch is caressing on head for pain relief.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-05-20
• Primary completion: 2024-09-30
• Completion: 2024-11-30
• First posted: 2024-05-16
• Last updated: 2024-08-20

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Pakistan