Effectiveness of animation distraction on pain response among preschool children during venipuncture in selected hospitals at Bagalkot

Abstract

Background:  Today’s society is complex and ever changing children need to grow and learn many things. Children are vulnerable  to different forms of illness, hospitalization is one of the stressful event in child life . Venepuncture is an invasive procedure in hospital settings. Which may produce pain, anxiety, and discomfort in children. The animation destraction is one of the effective method which helps to reduce the pain stimuli. Objectives:  To assess the pain perceived by the pre school children during venipuncture in both experimental and control group.   Methods : A Quasi experimental  study with sample of considered of 60 pre school children (30 sample in the control group ,30 sample in experimental group) selected by inclusion or exclusion of samples  from the target population.  FLACC SCALE was used to  assess the pain level. The data was entered in the MS excel  sheet  and transffered  to SPSS 18 for  analysis .   Result : The mean value of experimental group of pain score during venipuncture 2.8± 1.03 and control group pain score during venipuncture7.9±0.71.The mean pain score between  the control group and experimental group 5.1,P<0.001. Conclusion :  Mean score of control group is greater than mean score of experimental group. This study found that animation distraction is one of the effective nursing intervention in reducing the pain level among pre school children during venipuncture .