NCT07210346

The Effects of Listening to Fairy Tales, Listening to Fairy Tales in Their Mothers' Voices, and Watching Cartoons on Pain, Comfort Levels, and Physiological Parameters During Tracheostomy Care in a Palliative Care Clinic

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 17 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Ataturk University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 1 Year – 7 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aimed to determine the effects of listening to fairy tales, listening to fairy tales from the mother's voice, and watching cartoons on pain, comfort, and physiological parameters during tracheostomy care of children receiving palliative care.

Detailed description

Seventeen volunteer children between the ages of 1 and 7 receiving palliative care will be randomly assigned to three groups: a storytelling group, a mother's voice storytelling group, and a cartoon group. Each intervention will be administered once a day for one week. There will be a one-week washout period between interventions, during which time the children will receive routine nursing care. No intervention other than the storytelling or cartoon intervention will be administered to all three groups. Children will be assessed before, during, and after the procedure. PAIN RELATED TO THE TRACEOSTOMY PROCEDURE will be assessed using the FLACC Pain Scale, and comfort will be assessed using the Child Comfort Scale. Additionally, the children's heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, tidal volume, and temperature will be measured using a bedside monitor.

Conditions

• Tracheostomy
• Care

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	fairy tales	The children's stories will be selected by child psychologists. The stories will be read by a story therapist and recorded on a voice recorder. The story playback will begin five minutes before the request begins and continue throughout the request process. The stories will be played for five days. Afterward, there will be a one-week detoxification period before moving on to the next intervention.
OTHER	mother's voice	Children's stories will be selected by child psychologists. The stories will be read by the children's mothers and recorded on a voice recorder. Story repetition will begin five minutes before the request begins and continue throughout the request period. The stories will be listened to for five days. Following this, there will be a one-week detoxification period before moving on to the next intervention.
OTHER	Cartoons	The cartoons children will watch will be selected by child psychologists. Children will be shown cartoons on tablets. Watching will begin five minutes before the request period and continue throughout the request period. Children will be shown cartoons for five days.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-11-01
• Primary completion: 2025-12-30
• Completion: 2026-01-01
• First posted: 2025-10-07
• Last updated: 2025-10-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)