Testing the Effectiveness of a Parent and Child Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Child Venipuncture
Pain, Needle Stick
About this trial
This is an interventional other trial for Pain focused on measuring pain management, children, parents, mindfulness
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Proficiency in English
Exclusion Criteria:
- Major developmental delays in child
Sites / Locations
- University of Guelph
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Sham Comparator
Mindfulness-Based Condition
Unfocused attention Condition
Parents and children in the mindfulness intervention condition will be provided with a tablet and accompanying headphones, and will listen to pre-recorded audio of a mindfulness activity. There is a parent and child version of the mindfulness intervention. Both scripts were developed by Siegel and Bryson (2011), and include a parent and child version of a mindfulness activity targeting worries and anxiety. Adjustments to the child script were informed by the work of Petter and colleagues (2013). Adjustments to the parent script were informed by the work of Garland and colleagues (2015). This activity will last 5-minutes.
Parents and children in the unfocused attention condition will be provided with a tablet and accompanying headphones, and will listen to pre-recorded audio of an unfocused attention activity. There is a parent and child version of this activity. The parent version has been validated in other research with healthy adults as a control for a mindfulness intervention (Garland, Hanley, Farb, & Froeliger, 2015). This script was condensed in time from the original reading. The child version of the activity was developed for the current study, and was adapted from a mind-wandering script used for children aged 7-12 in past research (Spann, 2016). It was also informed by the unfocused attention script used for parents (Garland, Hanley, Farb, & Froeliger, 2015), and work by Cahn and Polich (2009). This activity will last 5-mintues.