22 Oct Program Can Help Parents Manage Kids’ Pain from Vaccines
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Dr. Taddio
Dr. Anna Taddio BScPhm PhD
Professor at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
University of Toronto and Senior Associate Scientis
The Hospital for Sick Children
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: In our prior research, parents have reported they are not educated about how to soothe their infants during painful procedures like vaccinations and that they want to know how they can help. Parents also reported that concerns about their infant’s pain affects their decision-making around vaccination. We therefore set out to target parents for education about how to soothe their infants.
We picked the hospital setting because almost all parents are in the hospital for some period of time following the birth of an infant and already routinely receive education about healthy baby topics. Providing information about pain management was easy to add. We found that about 1 out of 10 parents that were given this information acted on it.
MedicalResearch.com: What should readers take away from your report?
Response: No parent wants to see their child in pain and a parents’ desire to reduce pain is supported when we provide them with evidence-based strategies to use. These strategies are easy to use, and not only decrease unnecessary infant suffering, they also help parents. Parents are less anxious about their children getting vaccinations. Attending to infant distress is also important for healthy infant development. Targeting parents at the time of birth also ensures that parents will use and advocate for better pain care for their children across different medical settings and throughout the lifespan.
MedicalResearch.com: What recommendations do you have for future research as a result of this work?
Response: We need to find ways to reach more parents so that they can use this information to help their children. We also need to follow parents over time and teach them about the strategies that are helpful for children of different ages. Finally, we need to study how better pain management practices impacts on vaccination rates.
Citation:
Effectiveness of a hospital-based postnatal parent education intervention about pain management during infant vaccination: a randomized controlled trial Anna Taddio BScPhm PhD, Vibhuti Shah MD, Lucie Bucci MA, Noni E. MacDonald MD, Horace Wong MSc, Derek Stephens MSc
CMAJ 2018 October 22;190:E1245-52. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.180175
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Last Updated on October 22, 2018 by Marie Benz MD FAAD