Applied Nursing Research
Volume 23, Issue 2 , Pages 101-105, May 2010

The pain response of infants in Turkey to vaccination in different injection sites

  • Ayda Celebioglu, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatric Nursing, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey, 25240
    • ,
  • Reva Balci Akpinar, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey, 25240
    • ,
  • Ayfer Tezel, PhD, RN

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nursing, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey, 25240
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.

Received 27 March 2007; received in revised form 18 January 2008; accepted 22 March 2008. published online 16 January 2009.

Abstract 

This study was carried out with the aim of comparing pain responses of children who receive intramuscular (IM) vaccination in deltoid muscle versus the pain responses of those who receive IM vaccination in the vastus lateralis. A total of 185 infants were randomly assigned to one of the two study groups. The deltoid group and the vastus lateralis group were vaccinated respectively in the deltoid muscle and the vastus lateralis. Our results indicated that pain response of infants was similar in each group. However, crying duration of the children who received the vastus lateralis vaccination was shorter than that of the deltoid group after the procedure.

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PII: S0897-1897(08)00035-9

doi:10.1016/j.apnr.2008.03.003

Applied Nursing Research
Volume 23, Issue 2 , Pages 101-105, May 2010

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