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Distraction and Vibration for Minimizing Pain During Childhood Vaccination

Distraction and Vibration for Minimizing Pain During Childhood Vaccination

Status
Completed
Phases
NA
Study type
Interventional
Source
ClinicalTrials.gov
Registry ID
NCT03540589
Enrollment
204
Registered
2018-05-30
Start date
2018-05-21
Completion date
2018-10-30
Last updated
2019-02-22

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Pain Due to Childhood Vaccination

Brief summary

Vaccine pain control is one of the actions suggested to support the delivery of vaccines that are on a vaccine schedule, since pain and anxiety associated with vaccines are among the main reasons why children and their parents fail to do them properly. Thus, it is very important to investigate which interventions can bring greater benefit in the control of pain.This is a randomized clinical trial aiming to assess the impact of video distraction and vibration device on pain during the vaccination of children between one and three years.

Interventions

DEVICEBuzzy specific vibration device

It is a device that produces vibration

BEHAVIORALDistraction

The distraction will be obtained through tablet with videos

Sponsors

Hospital Nossa Senhora da Conceicao
Lead SponsorOTHER

Study design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
1 Years to 3 Years
Healthy volunteers
Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Children between 1 year and 3 years, 11 months and 29 days of life. * Be accompanied by legal guardian. * Apply only one injectable vaccine at the time of the research.

Exclusion criteria

* Refuses to sign the consent form. * Have already been included in the study previously.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frameDescription
Duration of crying in secondsThrough study completion, an average 6 monthsThe duration of crying will be used as surrogate endpoint to assess pain

Secondary

MeasureTime frameDescription
The satisfaction of parentsThrough study completion, an average 6 monthsThe satisfaction of parents will be evaluated through a questionnaire

Countries

Brazil

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026