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NCT05001191
The Effect of Gentle Human Touch in Preterm Infants During Heel Lancing
NA trial testing Gentle Human Touch in Heel Lancing in 50 participants. Completed in 10 September 2021.
10 September 2021
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | TC Erciyes University |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | single |
| Primary purpose | supportive care |
| Enrollment | 50 |
| Start date | 10 August 2021 |
| Primary completion | 10 September 2021 |
| Estimated completion | 10 September 2021 |
| Sites | 1 location across Turkey (Türkiye) |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Gentle Human Touch
Conditions studied
- Heel Lancing — all drugs for Heel Lancing →
Sponsor
TC Erciyes University
Who can join
Adults 32 Weeks to 37 Weeks, any sex, with Heel Lancing. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
This randomized controlled experimental study is planned in order to determine the effect of gentle human touch on pain, comfort and physiological parameters in preterm infants during heel lancing matched for gestational age, gender and birth weight. The study will be performed with preterm infants hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary hospital. Ethical committee approval, institutional permission, parental written consent were obtained. The therapeutic touch will be applied 10 minutes before the heel lancing, it will continue during and after the procedure, a total of 15 minutes of sensitive touch will be applied. The practitioner will place one hand on the baby's head and the other hand on the lower abdomen covering the waist and hips of the preterm baby for 15 minutes. Before and after the study the following were evaluated in preterm infants in the gentle human touch and control group: pain, comfort and physiological parameters.
Publications & conference data
No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05001191 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
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- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by TC Erciyes University
- Last refreshed: 13 June 2022
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