2020, Vol. 2, Issue 2, Part A

author(s)
Renu Phogat

abstract
Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Thus it is important for health care providers to follow a child centered or individual approach in their assessment and management of pain and painful procedures. Distraction is the most frequent intervention used in the pediatric department to guide children’s attention away from the painful stimuli and reduce pain. This was a quasi-experimental study of 60 children (30 in experimental group and 30 in control group) undergoing venipuncture in selected hospitals of Gurugram. The FACES pain scale uses to for pain assessment. Experimental group were given passive distraction in the form of cartoon movie but the control group were not during venipuncture. The intervention was done 2 minutes before initiation of procedure (venipuncture) during procedure and till 5 minutes of completion of procedure. Mean pain score in experimental group was lower (4.47) than that of the control group (8.40) with the mean difference of 3.93 which was significant as evident from “t” value of (10.2279) at 0.05 level of significance. Cartoon movie as a distracter is effective on reducing pain of children undergoing venipuncture.