Regardless of the severity and duration, preterm infants give physiological and behavioral responses to a painful application. While infants show behavioral responses such as crying, changes in facial expressions, acceleration or deceleration in motor movements during painful interventions, they may subjectively show changes in physiological parameters such as heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and decrease in saturation value. Because preterm infants are sensitive to many stress factors and due to reasons such as separation from the mother during the treatment process, environments with excessive light, sound and temperature changes, and the absence of a single caregiver. They do not yet have the physiological maturity to cope with painful interventions. This randomized controlled trial was planned to determine the changes in stress, pain, and physiological parameters of faciliated tucking and reiki administered during orogastric tube insertion in preterm infants 32-37 weeks of gestation.
The aim of this study is to determine the effects of faciliated tucking and reiki given manually during orogastric tube insertion in preterm infants treated in the NICU on stress, pain and physiological parameter (heartbeat, blood pressure, SpO2 and respiratory rate) levels.