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To assess the effect of face-to-face education on anxiety and pain in children withminor extremity injuries undergoing outpatient suturing. Methods: Children in interventionand control groups received face-to-face education (10 minutes) and no specific education,respectively. The anxiety and pain was measured using Modified-Yale Preoperative AnxietyScale, and pain by Faces Pain Scale–Revised, respectively in 3 stages viz, pre-procedureand pre-intervention, post-procedure. Results: Children in the intervention group were lessanxious than the control at pre-procedure and post-intervention stage (41.1 (13.8) vs. 46.3(19.1), respectively, P=0.03) and post-procedure and post-intervention stage (32.3 (17.2) vs.40.2 (12.9), respectively, P=0.01). Children in the intervention group experienced less painthan the control at pre-procedure and post-intervention stage (3.9 (3.8) vs. 4.9 (3.1),respectively, P<0.001) and post-procedure and post-intervention stage (3.1 (1.2) vs. 4.0 (2.1),respectively, P=0.001). Conclusions: Face-to-face education could reduce anxiety and painin children undergoing suturing in the emergency department
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Background: Recent trials have shown controversial results on which enteral feeding methods has a lower risk of enteral feeding intolerance. Therefore, we aimed to compare two methods of bolus and intermittent feeding on enteral feeding intolerance of patients with sepsis
Methods: This triple-blind randomized controlled trial was conducted on 60 patients with sepsis, who were fed through tubes for at least 3 days. The patients were randomly assigned into bolus feeding, intermittent feeding, and control groups. Enteral feeding intolerance of all patients was recorded in 3 consecutive days by a researcher-made checklist including the data on gastric residual volume, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, and abdominal distension
Results: There were no significant differences between the three studied groups in none of the intervention days pertaining to constipation, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal distention, and gastric residual volume [p > 0.05]. Also, no statistically significant difference was found between all variables in the three studied groups during the 3 days [p > 0.05]
Conclusion: As enteral feeding intolerance of patients with sepsis was similar in both bolus and intermittent feeding methods, it can be concluded that bolus method can still be used as a standard method to decrease the risk of enteral feeding intolerance if it is used properly