An interventional study of Facilitated Tucking and Gentle Human Touch in Non Pharmacological Pain Management, sponsored by Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University. Recruiting at 2 sites in Pakistan. Open to participants aged 1 Day to 28 Days. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2024-08-20.
Sponsored by Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University · Not applicable, Interventional, and Treatment
This is a Randomized Control Trial intended to investigate the effect of two non-pharmacological interventions on procedural pain among neonates.
The Study Design is a Randomized Control Trial, intended to investigate the effect of facilitated tucking and gentle human touch on procedural pain among neonates (age 28 days). Neonatal Infant Pain Scale will be used for pain scoring, data will be collected by recording demographic variables for all neonates and then capturing a video recording for pain scoring by an independent research assistant.
241 studies on the registry are indexed under Pain, Procedural; 64 are open to participants now.
This study's planned enrollment of 159 is above the median of 90 across 227 interventional studies indexed under Pain, Procedural.
Browse Pain, Procedural studies →Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University is the lead sponsor of 27 studies on the registry; 10 are open to participants now.
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Exclusion Criteria:
A non pharmacological intervention to be implemented during arterial prick.
Other: Facilitated Tucking
A non pharmacological intervention to be implemented during arterial prick.
Other: Gentle Human Touch
Usual Care
Facilitated Tucking is a position to be adopted for pain relief in neonates.
while gentle human touch is caressing on head for pain relief.
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
Plan to share: No — Not intended
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Started May 2024 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Sep 2024, 4 months after the start.
Of 141 non-industry interventional studies with no phase under Pain, Procedural, half reached primary completion within 7 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 3 and three quarters within 15. This study's planned 4 months is below that.
Counting every sponsor, half of 141 studies reached it within 7 months; a quarter within 3 and three quarters within 15.
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