Efficacy of oral glucose on infant vaccine shot pain

ABSTRACT

Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experiment arising from actual or potential tissue damage and can be constant or intermittent. Pain can be dull, sharp or throbbing. Untreated pain especially in early infancy can actually have profound and lasting consequences. Therefore this study is done to assess the efficacy of oral Glucose on infant vaccine shot pain. This research is a double-blind clinical trial. Samples were consisting of 121 healthy 2, 4 and 6 months infants referred to health centers of Yasouj medical sciences university. They were selected as three aged groups and randomly divided in two control and case groups. Two minutes before DPT vaccine injection, the intervention was performed in case group. Before, during and after injection, the infant's reaction was videotaped. The pain severity was surveyed using Modified Behavioral Pain Scale [MBPS]. Duration of crying was also determined. Data were analyzed using SPSS software, LSD, Pearson correlation and X[2] tests. Results indicated that, the mean pain severity in case and control group was 6.38 +/- 0.16 and 5.87 +/- 0.22 respectively. LSD test showed significant difference between case and control group. The mean crying period in first 180 seconds was 50.36 +/- 4.4 seconds for case group and 65.69 +/- 6.8 seconds for control group. Nevertheless, LSD test did not show a significant difference between two groups. Results indicated that, Oral glucose does not effect on reducing pain severity caused by vaccination. It seems that, crying period has reverse relation with pain severity which needs to be studied more widely