A Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Topical Application of Ice Cubes on Level of Pain after Intravenous Blood Sample Collection among Patients Admitted In Tertiary Care Hospital

Abstract

ABSTRACT:
Background: The collection of intravenous blood samples continues to be a common and sometimes uncomfortable process among the many medical procedures individuals endure. The discomfort involved with this treatment should not be underestimated, even for patients referred to tertiary care facilities who are frequently already dealing with difficult medical problems. Although it serves an important diagnostic and therapeutic function.
Objective: To assess the level of pain among patients undergoing blood sample collection. To assess the effectiveness of the topical application of ice cubes on the level of pain after blood sample collection. To find out the association between the pretest level of pain of patients with selected socio-demographic and clinical variables.
Methodology: A Quantitative research approach & Descriptive research design was used in the research. The research selected 80 samples admitted to Parul Seva Ashram Hospital through a probability convenience sampling technique and divided into to control group and an experimental group. The sociodemographic data and numerical pain rating scale were used. RESULT: The findings of the study revealed that in the post-test level of thirst in the control group on the Pain day of assessment, 13 subjects (32.5%) had Moderat Pain and 27 subjects (67.5%) had Severe Pain, whereas the post-test level of Pain in experimental group on the third day of assessment, 1 subject (2.5%) had not Pain and 35 subjects (87.5%) had Mild Pain and 4 subjects (10.0%) had Moderate pain. level of pain between the experimental and control group was 27.898 which was highly significant at p<0.001 The post-test mean of the experimental group was 2.08 whereas in the control group was 4.68 and the mean difference was 2.600 which showed greater improvement than other parameters.
Conclusion: it is considered that almost all patients in the experimental group get relief from pain as compared to the control group