Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial of a child and parent mindfulness intervention for pediatric venipuncture.

ABSTRACT: Children commonly undergo painful needle procedures. Unmanaged procedural pain can have short- and long-term consequences, including longer procedure times, greater distress at future procedures, and vaccine hesitancy. While parent behaviors are one of the strongest predictors of children's response to acute pain, pediatric procedural pain management interventions focus almost exclusively on the child. Further, existing parent-involved pediatric pain management interventions typically fail to improve child self-reported pain during painful procedures. The current protocol offers the first randomized controlled trial involving a mindfulness intervention for pediatric acute pain that includes children and their parents. This study aims to conduct a single-site, two-arm, parallel-group RCT to

SUBMITTER: Moline RL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8975227 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature