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

ConditionNon Pharmacological Pain Management

Trial statusRecruiting

Trial phaseNot applicable

Trial typeInterventional

Biological sexAll

Age1-28

SponsorShifa Tameer-e-Millat University

About this trial

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

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Both term and preterm neonates.

APGAR scores of a minimum of 6 at one minute and 8 at 5 minutes

Admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Undergoing arterial prick for the first time.

Disqualifiers

Documented birth asphyxia

Congenital anomalies

Neurological diagnosis,

ventilated with paralysis

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

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

Treatment groups

159 Participants

are divided into 3 treatment groups

Group A: Facilitated TuckingExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Group B: Gentle Human TouchExperimental treatment 1 intervention

Group C: Usual CareNo intervention 0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

Neonatal Infant Pain Scale

scoring of pain based on a scale used in neonates both for term and pre term babies.( Minimum Pain Score 0, Maximum 7, Higher number indicates the worse outcome

Time frame

Before,During Arterial Prick and after three minutes

Sponsors and contacts

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Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University

Lead sponsor

Shifa International Hospital

Sponsor institution

Source ClinicalTrials.gov

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