Perspectives of nurses regarding pain assessment and management during routine infant vaccination in Ghana

dc.contributor.author	Annan, E.
dc.contributor.author	Ramukumba, T.S.
dc.contributor.author	Stevens, B.J.
dc.date.accessioned	2023-06-20T17:10:58Z
dc.date.available	2023-06-20T17:10:58Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description	Research Article	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Abstract Aim To explore the perspectives of nurses regarding pain and its management during routine infant vaccination at the Child Welfare Clinics in Ghana. Design Qualitative descriptive design. Methods Qualitative in depth, in-person interviews using a semistructured interview guide were conducted with 19 Registered Nurses who were were purposively sampled from three selected Child Welfare Clinics in hospitals in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, The Tesch cotent analysis procedure was followed for the analysis of interview data. Results Nurses were aware that the injections they give infants are painful. They described how infants exhibit certain behaviours to express pain. Although nurses support infant pain management during vaccination, they rarely use evidenced-based pain interventions.	en_US
dc.identifier.other	https://doi.org/10.1002/nop2.1772
dc.identifier.uri	http://ugspace.ug.edu.gh:8080/handle/123456789/39321
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	John Wiley and Sons Inc	en_US
dc.subject	Infant Vaccination	en_US
dc.subject	Pain Assessment	en_US
dc.subject	Ghana	en_US
dc.subject	Nurses	en_US
dc.title	Perspectives of nurses regarding pain assessment and management during routine infant vaccination in Ghana	en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US

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