Pain in Newborn Heel Blood Collection

The Effect of White Noise and Therapeutic Touch on Pain in Newborn Heel Blood Collection

This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of white noise and therapeutic touch on pain in newborn heel blood collection.Questions including the sex of the newborns, postnatal age, gestational age, birth weight, height, head and chest circumference, feeding style, nutritional status in the last half hour, and previous heel blood collection were collected with the "Information Form".The Newborn Infant Pain Scale (NIPS) was used to evaluate the pain levels of newborns.

Inclusion Criteria:

• gestational week 37 and above,
• fasting time < 1 hour,
• without comorbidity and congenital anomalies,
• not receiving oxygen or mechanical respiratory support,
• no analgesic sedation before the procedure
• neonates with stable physiological findings before the procedure

Exclusion Criteria:

• newborns whose heel blood cannot be taken at once