NCT06443437

Effect of Bee-buzzy Vibrating Cold Application and Marionette Doll on Pain and Fear During Phlebotomy

Effect of Bee-buzzy Vibrating Cold Application and Marionette Doll on Pain and Fear During Phlebotomy Among Preschool Children: A Randomized Controlled Study

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 90 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Assiut University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 3 Years – 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Non-pharmacological methods are often used as a creative strategy to reduce pain and fear in children during a painful procedure such as phlebotomy. In this context, external vibratory cold application and a marionette doll are a commonly used as non-pharmacological distraction method to reduce pain and fear. In the literature, there are studies with cold application, vibrating devices and a marionette doll in bee appearance therefor this study is aimed to evaluate the effect of bee-buzzy vibrating cold application and marionette doll on pain and fear during phlebotomy among preschool children.

Detailed description

Pain is one of the negative experiences faced in pediatric patients due to various medical interventions and often causes fear and anxiety. Pain perception is affected by the child's age, cognitive development, communication skills, previous pain experiences, and pain beliefs. Severe and long-term pain resulting from interventions can cause behavioral and physiological problems. In this period, if the pain is not alleviated or eliminated with appropriate interventions, it may cause neurological and behavioral disorders in the future. Nurses are responsible for minimizing the pain felt by children exposed to painful interventions and helping them cope with it .

Conditions

• Fear of Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	bee-buzzy vibrating cold application marionette doll	* Bee-buzzy will be attached to the arm of the preschool child (who is included in the bee-buzzy group) by the researchers, where the phlebotomy will be performed on the child. It reduces pain through its cold wings and vibration. It helps to distract attention during phlebotomy and reduces the feeling of pain and fear. Bee-buzzy will be tied 5 cm above the area from which blood will be drawn, and after waiting for 15 seconds, the nurse will perform a phlebotomy. * A marionette doll group; while the nurse is going to perform the phlebotomy operation on the preschool child, one of the researchers will try to distract the child by paly with marionette doll. The researchers will receive training in play therapy
OTHER	Rotuine care	children in control group will receive routine hospital are

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-05-31
• Primary completion: 2024-06-15
• Completion: 2024-06-30
• First posted: 2024-06-05
• Last updated: 2024-06-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt