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Effects of Active and Passive Distraction Methods on Children's Pain, Fear and Anxiety

NCT06826352 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 105

Last updated 2025-02-13

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Summary

Background:

It is important that reduce children's pain, fear, and anxiety during the invasive procedures for building effective communication with children and their parents. Knowing the effective methods will be helpful to use in the pediatric clinical.

Objective:

This study aimed to determine the effects of watching cartoons, a passive distraction method and playing video games, an active distraction method, on the pain, fear and anxiety of 3- to 7-year-old children before, during and after invasive procedures.

Design:

A randomized controlled clinical trial

Setting(s):

General pediatric service of a training and research hospital in Istanbul

Participants:

The study sample included 105 children who were 3- to 7-years-old inpatients. The children were randomly assigned to the control (n=35), cartoon (n=35) and video game (n=35) groups.

Methods:

The data were collected using an introductory information form, the Oucher Pain Scale, the Children's State Anxiety Scale, and the Children's Fear Scale between November 26, 2019 and January 8, 2020. Data analysis was performed with SPSS software using the chi-squared test, and one-way and repeated measures ANOVA.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Active Distraction

The video games will be played by children during the procedure.

BEHAVIORAL

Passive Distraction

The cartoons will be selected by the children related to their interests. The cartoons are included Pepee, Niloya, Tom and Jerry, Masha and The Bear and others.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Özge Sukut, PhD · IUC

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
3 Years
Max Age
7 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-11-26
Primary Completion
2020-01-08
Completion
2020-01-08

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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Diseases

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