The Effect of Video-Based Educational Content for Parents and Children on Anxiety, Fear, and Pain During Blood Draw in Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial

This study aim to examine the effect of video-based educational content prepared for parents and children on anxiety, fear, and pain levels experienced by children aged 4-7 during venipuncture procedures.The study a single-centre, randomized controlled trial. The study will conduct in the pediatric phlebotomy unit of a university hospital's central laboratory in Turkey. This randomized controlled trial will included 80 children aged 4-7, randomly assigned to intervention and control groups. The control group will receive routine clinical care before, during, and after venipuncture. In the intervention group, children and their parents will shown video-based educational content prior to the procedure. Data collection tools included a Child and Family Information Form, the Children's pain, Fear, and the Child Anxiety Scale. The normality of fear, anxiety, and pain scale scores will evaluate with the Shapiro-Wilk test. Repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) will applied to compare scale scores across groups and time points. Within-group comparisons will conduct using one-way repeated measures ANOVA, while between-group differences at each time point were assessed with independent samples t-tests.