Immunization-Associated Pain: Taking Research to the Bedside
| Autor: | Christina M. Cwynar, Kathryn Osborne |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
business.industry Visual analogue scale Psychological intervention Infant Pain Procedural Primary care clinic 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Immunization Pain control 030225 pediatrics Child Preschool Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health FLACC scale Physical therapy medicine Preventing pain Humans Pain Management 030212 general & internal medicine business Child Pain Measurement |
| Zdroj: | Journal of pediatric health care : official publication of National Association of Pediatric Nurse AssociatesPractitioners. 33(4) |
| ISSN: | 1532-656X |
| Popis: | Background Immunization-associated pain is the number one cause of pain in pediatric settings. Untreated pain has many short- and long-term detrimental effects. The purpose of this project was to implement a nonpharmaceutical immunization-associated–pain prevention program. Method This project was implemented at a pediatric primary care clinic. Staff were educated about immunization-associated pain and techniques for decreasing/preventing pain. Families were educated about pain control, and the practitioner and parent/child picked interventions to decrease pain. Preimplementation and postimplementation data were collected using previously validated pain and satisfaction scales. Results Pain prevention interventions decreased pain for children between 2 months and 7 years of age by 4.7 points on a Faces, Legs, Activity, Cry, Consolability (i.e., FLACC) scale. For children 7 years and older, pain during immunization decreased on average by 1.76 points on the visual analog scale. Conclusion Non-pharmaceutical interventions are effective in decreasing immunization-associated pain. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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