Poster Presentation
Friday, 21 July 2006
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Friday, 21 July 2006
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
This presentation is part of : Poster Presentations III
A Correlational Study of Children's Experiences of Procedural Pain
Su-Fen Cheng, RN, PhD, Department of Nursing, Fooyin University, Kaohsiung Hsien, Taiwan, Pei-rong Chang, RN, MS, Department of Nursing, Foo-Yin University, Kaohsiung Hsien, Taiwan, Chi-Chun Chin, RN, PhD, College of Nursing, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Taiwan, Shih-Hsien Kuo, RPh, PhD, Basic Medical Science Education Center, Fooyin University, Kaohsiung Hsien, Taiwan, Taiwan, and Hui-Ling Liou, BSN, Nursing Department, PingTong Christian Hospital, Ping-Tong City, Taiwan.
Learning Objective #1: The learner will be able to understand the experiences of children's procedural pain.
Learning Objective #2: The learner will be able to understand the factors influencing children's procedural pain.
Pain is the most common problem for which patients in clinical settings seek help. In Taiwan, almost all Taiwanese hospitalized children receive intravenous therapies, which remain at the site until been discharged from hospitals. Cheng (2002) found that hospitalized children in Taiwan had medium procedural pain. In clinical, it is not difficult to find pain reactions, fear and distress during the process of intravenous injection. If the intervention only focuses on pain reactions, procedural pain may not be able to be relieved. Thus, the purposes of this study are to explore the relationship among children’s experiences of procedural pain, fear and distress reactions toward intravenous therapy.
This is a descriptive correlational design. A total of 191 children aged 4-11 years old who were hospitalized with procedural pain were purposefully recruited in this study. All children were asked to report the intensity of their procedural pain using Cheng and Chang (2005) pain rating scale and to complete the procedural fear scale and questionnaire. The pain intensity scales were measured children’s overall pain, procedural pain expectation, procedural pain acceptance, previous worst procedural pain.
The results of this study revealed that children experienced medium pain during intravenous injection. Current procedural pain intensity was positive correlated with procedural pain expectation, fear during intravenous injection and procedural pain acceptance, and explain 36.9% of variance. Although we cannot decrease children’s expectation pain which is associated with previous pain experience, we can decrease children’s fear in relation to intravenous injection. The result of this study expanded the understanding of factors related to children’s procedural pain, especially procedural pain expectation, and demonstrated the need to include pain expectation as a variable in future research. The results also supported the recommendation for research, practice and education.

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