Background Although an effective public health intervention and a routine pediatric practice,
vaccines are a common source of iatrogenic pain in childhood. Techniques, such as exam …

Introduction Numerous studies demonstrate that parental concern for infant pain contributes
to vaccine hesitancy. The purpose of this project was to alleviate parental concern for pain …

Educating parents about ways to minimize pain during routine infant vaccine injections at
the point of care may positively impact on pain management practices. The objective of this …

BACKGROUND: Parents have reported that they want to learn how to reduce pain in infants
during vaccinations. Our objective was to compare different levels of intensity of postnatal …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to share lessons learned from a quality improvement
(QI) project that studied pediatric pain assessment scores after implementing additional …

Pain experienced in childhood can lead to long-term and psychologically detrimental effects.
Unfortunately, the most common pain experienced in childhood is caused by vaccinations …

The objective was to determine if consistent pain management during vaccine injections has
a beneficial effect on future infant pain reactivity. This was a multicenter, longitudinal, double …

Objective: Pain from vaccine injections remains undertreated, despite the availability of
numerous pain-relieving strategies. Healthcare providers report lack of time within current …

INTRODUCTION: Despite the availability of a variety of evidence‐based interventions, it has
previously been reported that the majority of infants and children undergo vaccine injections …

Aim: To evaluate the feasibility, acceptability and preliminary efficacy of parent interventions
for improving the use of pain management strategies during vaccination of infants, a two …