Children's changing emotional and physical needs, continuous, comprehensive, accessible, coordinated and family requires a centered care.Parental presence during invasive procedures is important in family-centered-care. Family-centered-care is a basic principle of pediatric nursing. It is extremely important that parents are with their children during painful procedures. Research; parents during peripheral intravenous catheterization in infancy It was planned to determine the effect of inclusion on pain and anxiety.

This randomized controlled trial included data from 120 cases in the Pediatric Health and Diseases Department of Istanbul, during March 2020-August 2020 (parental involvement group, n = 46; parental presence group, n = 42; parental absence group, n = 32). Information form, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and FLACC scale were used to collect data.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Children within the age group of 1-24 months Parents know Turkish language

Exclusion Criteria:

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infants and their parents were randomly sampled from the universe using a simple random sampling method, peripheral intravenous catheterization, volunteering to participate in the study, infants and parents between 1 and 24 months.