UĞURLU, Esma EGE ÜNİVERSİTESİ (E.Ü.) Ödemiş Sağlık Yüksekokulu - Hemşirelik, Türkiye , KALKIM, Aslı EGE ÜNİVERSİTESİ (E.Ü.) Ödemiş Sağlık Yüksekokulu - Hemşirelik, Türkiye , SAĞKAL, Tülay EGE ÜNİVERSİTESİ (E.Ü.) Ödemiş Sağlık Yüksekokulu - Hemşirelik, Türkiye

The Most Common Status of Pain and Their Families’ Approaches in 0-1 Age Infants

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Objective: In this study we aimed to determine the most common status of pain and their families’ approaches about pain relief in 0-1 age infants.Material and Method: The study was descriptive which consisted of a total 195 mothers who applicant in Odemis State Hospital Children s Polyclin-ics July-September 2010 between. In data collection, a questionnaire consisting of total 24 questions. The data were evaluated number-percent distri-butions and chi-square test.Results: The mothers participating in the study were mean age 27.35±5.17; 52.3% of them were primary school graduates and 88.2% of them were housewives. It was found that 75.4% of the families were nuclear family, the average number of children was 1.60±0.71 and 51.8% of them have a child. 36.9% of infants were 0-3 months. It was detected that 86.2% of infants faced with pain and the most frequently encountered pain status was abdominal 77.4%, the vaccine pain 6% and ear pain 6%. It was detected that 75.7% of infants experiencing with the vaccine pain were given analgesic drugs;77.6% of them experiencing with abdominal pain were applied mostly massage application on their abdominal;71.9% of them experiencing with ear pain were applied mostly analgesic drugs.Conclusion: It was founded that faced by 0-1 age infants were abdominal pain of the most common pain.Also, mothers in this age period used the analgesic drugs and alternative methods; massage, exercise, herbal teas, to put and apply anything on the aching area to coping with the situations of pain.

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Infant , Pain , Infant pain.

Fırat Medical Journal

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