A Randomized Trial of a Pain Education Booklet: Effects on Parents' Attitudes and Postoperative Pain Management

Christine T. Chambers; Graham J. Reid; Patrick J. McGrath; G. Allen Finley; Mary Lou Ellerton

doi:10.1207/s15326888chc2601_1

A Randomized Trial of a Pain Education Booklet: Effects on Parents' Attitudes and Postoperative Pain Management

Christine T. Chambers, Graham J. Reid, Patrick J. McGrath, G. Allen Finley, Mary Lou Ellerton

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This study was a randomized trial evaluating the effects of educating parents with the booklet Pain, Pain, Go Away: Helping Children With Pain on their attitudes and management of their children's postoperative pain. Eighty-two parents of children undergoing day surgeries were randomly assigned to a pain education group (n = 27), a pain assessment control group (n = 28), or a no pain education control group (n = 27). Parents in the pain education group had fewer concerns about the use of acetaminophen for children compared to the other two groups. Parents in the pain education group administered more doses of medication on the 3rd day following surgery than the other two groups; there were no group differences in medication dosages on either of the first 2 days following surgery. There were no group differences in parents' pain assessments on any of the 3 days following surgery. Fewer parental concerns about children's pain medications and higher parental pain assessments were related to higher numbers of doses of medication administered. These results are discussed with respect to the need for developing further interventions to educate parents about children's pain.

Idioma original	English
Páginas (desde-hasta)	1-13
Número de páginas	13
Publicación	Children's Health Care
Volumen	26
N.º	1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1207/s15326888chc2601_1
Estado	Published - 1997

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Funding Information:
Tlhis project was supported by an unrestricted grant from Bristol Myers Squibb awarded to P. J. McGrath. C. T. Chambers was partially supported by an Izaak

Funding Information:
Walton Killam (IWK) Children's Hospital Summer Student Research Award. G. J. Reid is supported by an IWK Children's Hospital Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship. Portions of this article were presented at the meeting of the Canadian Psychological Association, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, June 1995. We thank Paula English and the staff of IWK Day Surgery, particularly Hattie Coward and Janice Penney. Thanks are also extended to Cheryl Gilbert for her assistance in the early stages of the project and to Ron Hoffman for his assistance with the control booklets used in the project. Seventy thousand copies of the booklet Pain, Pain, Go Away: Helping Children With Pain were distributed free to families in North America by the Association for the Care of Children's Health.

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Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Clinical Psychology

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