Effectiveness of Facilitated Tucking in Reducing the Pain Response during Veinpuncture among Preterm Neonate Admitted in NICU and Postnatal Ward at Tertiary Care Hospital

Sneha V. Sankpal, Prakash M. Naregal, Vaishali. R. Mohite, Rajashri B Karale

Abstract: The infants who born preterm was depend on intensive care, associated with an exceedingly large amount of painful procedures. The study was aimed to assess the pain response during vein puncture in control group and effectiveness of facilitated tucking in reducing the pain response during vein puncture among preterm neonate admitted in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and postnatal ward in experimental group at Krishna Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Karad, Maharashtra, India. The study design was Post test only control group design.30 preterm neonates in experimental group with facilitated tucking and 30 with routine NICU method in control group were the sample selected by non probability purposive sampling technique. The result shows that the mean pain scores of experimental group was 2.47 and control group was 6.17. The unpaired t-test value was 20.76, (p

Keywords: Effectiveness, Pain, facilitated, Tucking, Preterm