Investigating the effect of two distraction methods on venipuncture induced pain in children in Hazrat Masumeh Subspecialty Hospital in Qom

Background: the most common painful and frequent invasive interventions in children’s hospital is venipuncture. The purpose of this study was to compare the two techniques of auditory distraction (Hear music) and mentally (bubble maker) in venipuncture induced pain in hospitalized children. Materials and methods: This clinical trial was done on all ill children hospitalized in 5 sections of 12 wards in children’s subspecialty hospital in Qom. The subjects were selected through gradual random sampling method and were randomly placed in two experimental groups and a control group (32 in bubble maker, 32 in hear music and 32 in control group). A bubble maker toy and cheerful chidish music was used to create distraction. The Oucher pain tool was used to evaluate severity of pain. Data was analyzed by SPSS software ver.22. Results: one –way ANOVA results showed a significant difference of pain intensity between the bobble maker group and the control group and also the music group with the control group (p˂0.001). The pain intensity in the bobble group was the least and in the control group was the highest and there was a significant difference between the two groups of music and bubble maker (p= 0.009). Conclusion: the results of the children’s distraction in three groups of bubble, music and control showed that there is a significant decrease in mean score of pain intensity in bubble group. So, active distraction (bubble maker) may effectively reduce the pain intensity in 6-12 years old children.