Cartoon Watching Versus Ball Squeezing During Venous Blood Sampling in Children

This single-center, parallel-group, randomized experimental study will compare the effects of two non-pharmacological distraction/coping interventions - cartoon watching and ball squeezing - on procedural pain and pain-related fear during venous blood sampling in children aged 6-9 years. The study will be conducted in the Pediatric Blood Collection Unit of Mersin University Hospital. Eligible children will be randomized to either the cartoon-watching group or the ball-squeezing group. Pain will be assessed using the Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale, and pain-related fear will be assessed using the Children's Fear Scale before, during, and after venous blood sampling. Hypotheses * H1a: There is a difference between groups in mean WB-FACES scores during the procedure. * H1b: There is a difference between groups in mean CFS scores during the procedure.

Inclusion Criteria: * Child aged 6-9 years * Child with need or plan for intravenous/venous blood sampling Exclusion Criteria: * Child with a neurodegenerative disease, mental retardation, vision and hearing problems, chronic, life-threatening (sepsis, shock, respiratory / cardiac arrest) or genetic disease * Child with use of opioids, narcotics, analgesics or sedatives in the last 24 hours before the procedure