The effect of the application of manual pressure before the administration of intramuscular injections on students' perceptions of postinjection pain: a semi‐experimental study

Deniz Öztürk, Zehra Gocmen Baykara, Ayise Karadag and Evrim Eyikara

Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2017, vol. 26, issue 11-12, 1632-1638

Abstract: Aims and objectives To evaluate the efficacy of applying manual pressure before intramuscular injection and compare it with the standard injection technique in terms of reducing the young adult student's postinjection pain. Background The administration of intramuscular injections is a procedure performed by nurses and one that causes anxiety and pain for the patient. Nurses have ethical and legal obligations to mitigate injection‐related pain and the nurses' use of effective pain management not only provides physical comfort to the patients, but also improves the patients' experience. Design Comparative experimental study. Methods This study was conducted with first‐year university students (n = 123) who were scheduled for hepatitis A and hepatitis B vaccination via deltoid muscle injection. Students were randomly assigned to the groups. Comparison group students (n = 60) were given an injection using the conventional method, that is without manual pressure being applied prior to the injection. The experimental group students (n = 63) received manual pressure at the vaccination site immediately before injection for a period of 10 seconds. The two techniques were used randomly. The subjects were given pressure to the injection site, and perceived pain intensity was measured using Numerical Rating Scale. Results Findings demonstrate that students experienced significantly less pain when they received injections with manual pressure compared with the standard injection technique. The postinjection average pain score in the comparison group was higher than that in the experimental group (p

Date: 2017
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