Effect of Vibration and ShotBlocker on Pain and Fear Levels During Intramuscular Injection in Children in the Emergency Department

Condition(s) studied

Investigational drug(s) / intervention(s)

Vibration: The vibration device was operated for 30 seconds with reference to previous studies. While the vibration continued, the nurse with a needle.Then, the vibration device continued to work in the waiting phase for 10 seconds. The vibration device was removed from routine intramuscular Injection procedure.

Shotblocker: The protruding surface of the Shotblocker was placed on the procedure site. While applying pressure on the skin through the Shotblocker, the nurse performed with the needle through the opening in the center of the Shotblocker. During the 10-second waiting phase, the Shotblocker was kept at the procedure site with the same pressure. Then Shotblocker was removed from the skin and routine capillary intramuscular injection procedure was performed.

Study summary

This prospective study is planned as a randomized controlled study. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of vibration and the ShotBlocker method on pain and fear levels in children during intramuscular injection in the emergency department.

Eligibility

Primary outcome measure(s)

• Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale — Through painful procedure completion, an average of 10 minutes
  In the study, pain level evaluations, the children's self-evaluations, parents' evaluations and the researcher's evaluations were carried out using the WB-FACES scale. This scale was developed by Donna Wong and Connie Morain Baker in 1988. The scale is graded between 0-10 points. A smiling face on the far left symbolizes "no pain" (0 very happy/no pain) and the pain increases from left to right. On the other hand, a crying face on the far right symbolizes "unbearable pain" (10 'hurts worst'). As the numbers increase in this scoring system, facial expressions also change referring to an increase in pain levels.

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