Effect of Nonpharmacological intervention Sweet-tasting solution on pain in term infants who receive Vaccination

introduction: Infant immunisation by intramuscular injection is a painfull procedure for infants. The goal of this study was determine effectiveness of oral sucrose on pain severity in term newborns undergoing vaccination. Materials and methods: In this randomized controlled trial 90 term newborns undergoing hepatitis B vaccine injection which performed in Shahid Mustafa Hospital in Ilam, were selected and randomly assigned into three groups: intervention, control and placebo. Then 2 minutes before vaccine injection 2ML 25% sucrose or water for injection was instilled into mouth of infants in intervention or placebo groups, respectively. The newborns of control group didn’t take anything and pain intensity measured by Neonatal Infant Pain Scale (NIPS) during 1-2 min. The collected data were analysed by SPSS18 Software. Results: According to the results, there was no significant difference between groups in term of Apgar score, delivery type, sex, head circumstance, weight and height. Comparison of pain severity in two groups, mean and Standard deviation of pain, group that received Sucrose solution had low intensity than sterile water group (3 ± 1.66 vs. 4.05 ± 1.23), but this difference was not significant statistically (p=0.78). Comparison of pain intensity in control and intervention groups showed that the pain intensity in control group is higher than intervention and placebo groups (p 0.001). Conclusion: Sweet solution of sucrose can be used as a simple and safe non pharmacological method to reduce the pain following immunization in newborn.