Background: Phlebotomy is among the most traumatic and uncomfortable procedures for children and their families in the emergency department. Buzzy and watching cartoons are effective and inexpensive non pharmacological pain management. Aim: To evaluate the effect of buzzy and watching cartoon on venipuncture pain among children undergoing phlebotomy. Research design: Quasi-experimental research design was used in current study. Sample: A purposive sample of 150 school-age children undergoing phlebotomy. Setting: Pediatric emergency units at Minia University Hospital for Obstetrics and Pediatrics Tools: Tool one: Structured interview form developed by researcher Tool two: Wong Faces Pain Rating Scale. Results: Mean scores of the Wong-BakerFacial Pain Rating Scale were significantly decreased in the buzzy group and the watching cartoons group than in the control group. Conclusion: It was concluded that buzzy and watching cartoons effectively diminish pain intensity at the venipuncture site among school children during Phlebotomy. The buzzy was more effective in reducing pain than watching cartoon. Recommendation: Pediatric health care units should integrate buzzy and watching cartoons to manage needle puncture pain in the routine care for children undergoing venipuncture procedures.
Background: Primary Nephrotic Syndrome is a worldwide epidemic in pediatric nephrology. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of health instructions on knowledge and reported practice of mothers' having children newly diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome. Subject and method: A quasi-experimental (pre-post) research design and carried out in the urologic pediatric outpatient clinic at Pediatric Minia university hospital. Also, a purposive sample of eighty-five mothers who had children newly diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome. Two tools were used in this study to collect data: Tool I: Children and mothers' demographic characteristics, present the child's medical history, and mothers' knowledge level. tool II: mothers' reported practices. Results: the studied mothers having children newly diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome had unsatisfactory knowledge level regarding meaning, causes, manifestations, investigations, common treatment, and complications of nephrotic syndrome pre-health instructional program and improved after its implementation by three months with statistically significant differences. Also, more than one-third of the studied mothers had an average reported practice level in the pre-health instructional program increased to nearly two-thirds of them after three months from implementation of the health instructional program with statistically significant differences. Conclusion: health instructions program improved effectively knowledge level and reported practice of mothers' having children newly diagnosed with nephrotic syndrome. Recommendation: Perform continuous health instructions program about the nephrotic syndrome is effective especially for the newly diagnosed cases.
Background: Hospitalization of new-born infant in a neonatal intensive care unit is a very frighten and distressing experience for parents, Nurses plays an important role in listening to the demands, concerns, and fears of the family, planning care, attending to their needs and providing the necessary support. Aim: Explore parents' needs regarding their high-risk neonates in neonatal intensive care unit. Research design: A descriptive exploratory research design was utilised in the current study. Sample: A convenient sample of 150 parents (105 mothers and 45 fathers) who had neonates admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit were involved in the current study.
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