Children's Blood Draws: Lavender Study

NCT06933771 | Completed DMC

• 1 other identifier: Çorlu State Hospital
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 102
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The aim of this study is to show the effect of lavender scent used to reduce pain and fear during blood collection in children aged 7-14.

Conditions

Nursing Caries; Pain Management

Keywords

PAİN; FEAR

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (2)

• Child Medical Fear Scale (CMFS)

  It is a 3-point Likert type scale that includes 29 items expressing the medical fears of children. For each item, the child is asked to choose one of the following responses: "not all afraid" (1), "a little afraid" (2), "very afraid" (3). The scale has 4 subscale dimensions which are procedural fears, environmental fears, intrapersonal fears and interpersonal fears. The total score that can be obtained on the scale ranges from 29 as the lowest to 87 as the highest . Children who score between 0-29 points are considered "not afraid" while the children who score between 29-58 points are considered "a little afraid", and children who score between 58-87 points are considered "very afraid".

  9 MONTHS

• Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale (WBFPRS)

  On the scale, there are 6 facial expressions that are presented on a horizontal plane and scored from 0 to 10. The happy facial expression on the far left represents a score of 0, meaning "doesn't hurt at all" and the crying facial expression on the far right represents a score of 10, meaning "hurts as much as you can imagine

  9 MONTHS

Study Arms (2)

LAVENDER ESSENCE GROUP

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

the researcher explained to the children in the intervention group and their parents how to apply the lavender essence and what kind of a plant lavender is, and showed the bottle of essential oil to be used during the procedure. A 5x5 cm sponge with 2 drops of almond oil that contains 1% lavender essence was located on the shoulder of the children to smell for 5 minutes.

Other: LAVENDER ESSENCE GROUP

CONTROL GROUP

SHAM COMPARATOR

no intervention was made.

Other: CONTROL GROUP

Interventions

LAVENDER ESSENCE GROUP OTHER

Parents stood on the left side, easily visible to the child. The sole routine method used to reduce pain in the blood collection unit of the hospital in which the study was conducted is the presence of parents during the procedure. In this study, all children in both intervention and control groups were accompanied by their parents. Afterwards, the researcher explained to the children in the intervention group and their parents how to apply the lavender essence and what kind of a plant lavender is, and showed the bottle of essential oil to be used during the procedure. A 5x5 cm sponge with 2 drops of almond oil that contains 1% lavender essence was located on the shoulder of the children to smell for 5 minutes.

Also known as: AROMATHERAPY GROUP

LAVENDER ESSENCE GROUP

CONTROL GROUP OTHER

Parents stood on the left side, easily visible to the child. The sole routine method used to reduce pain in the blood collection unit of the hospital in which the study was conducted is the presence of parents during the procedure. In this study, all children in both intervention and control groups were accompanied by their parents. Routine nursıng care provıed.

CONTROL GROUP

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 7 Years - 14 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• children between the ages of 7-14 who applied to the blood collection unit, who had no mental neurological, hearing, speech, vison disorders

You may not qualify if:

• who were not allergic to lavender essence, who were not diagnosed with asthma, allergies, epilepsy, dermatitis who had not taken analgesics in the last 6 hours were included in the study

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Corlu State Hospital: lead

Study Sites (1)

Çorlu State Hospital

Merkez, Tekirdağ, 59000, Turkey (Türkiye)

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Agnosia

Interventions

Control Groups

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Perceptual Disorders; Neurobehavioral Manifestations; Neurologic Manifestations; Nervous System Diseases; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Epidemiologic Research Design; Epidemiologic Methods; Investigative Techniques; Research Design; Methods

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: DOUBLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: PREVENTION
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER GOV
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Nurse

Model Details: LAVENDER ESSENCE GROUP - CONTROL GROUP

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: October 27, 2023
• First Posted: April 18, 2025
• Study Start: December 15, 2018
• Primary Completion: January 15, 2019
• Study Completion: September 15, 2023
• Last Updated: April 18, 2025

Record last verified: 2025-04

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

TU (1)