The Effect of Maternal Embrace And Breastfeeding Toward Infant Pain During Immunization Injection In Health Center of TomohonSulawesi Utara
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 5
Abstract
Immunization is given regularly in order to prevent dangerous diseases. Therefore, immunization is fundamental in public health. However, immunization in infants may cause trauma due to pain during injection. Maternal embrace and breastfeeding is one of the non-pharmacological actions that can reduce pain in infants when administering injections. This study is conducted to discover the effect of maternal embrace and breastfeeding toward infant pain during immunization injection. This study employed the nonequivalent posttest quasi-experiment with control group design, with the maternal embrace and breastfeeding intervention. Accidental sampling technique was applied to collect data from the sample, which are the infants who were undergoing the immunization injection. Each group, intervention group and control group, comprises 18 participants. FLACC scale was used as the pain response instrument. Independent T-test is used in this study to analyze the result and the test results show, infants pain in the intervention group is 100% moderate, whereas in the control group it is 100% severe. There exist differences in infantlevel of pain during immunization injection in intervention group and control group with p = 0.000 < 0.05. Based on this finding, maternal embrace and breastfeeding is beneficial in non-pharmacological pain management. Moreover, it can be applied to atraumatic care in order to improve patient care and comfort, provide nursing care, particularly to reduce infants pain.
Authors and Affiliations
Pungus Arlyn JV, Inayah I, Murtiningsih . , Suryati Y, Ropei O
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