An Efficacy of Cartoon Videos on Reducing Pain in Infants during Vaccination

Abstract

An infant is a human child from birth to the end of the 1st year of life. Emotional and physical needs at this time include love and security, a sense of trust, warmth and comfort, and feeding and sucking pleasure. All Infants undergo many painful procedures during their life as they are taking many immunizations. Pain is an uncomfortable sensation or feeling. Babies cannot tell us about their pain in words like older children, but they do give us clues by certain behaviors. Vaccination of children is must for the children and maximum injections are during infancy period itself. The route of hepatitis B vaccine is intramuscular route. In the current study, pain level of infants is assessed during intramuscular vaccination of hepatitis B. Intramuscular (IM) injection is a medical process, often accompanied by pain and distress in children. IM injection is a minor invasive procedure, but for children, it is also accompanied by pain, fear, and anxiety. Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. Thus, the reduction of such pain and distress becomes the responsibility of health-care professionals to an extent as possible while maintaining patient safety using various pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions.[1]