• Anna Taddio, Chaitya Parikh, Eugene W Yoon, Michael Sgro, Harvinder Singh, Erita Habtom, Andrew F Ilersich, Rebecca Pillai Riddell, and Vibhuti Shah.
• aClinical, Social and Administrative Pharmacy, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada bChild Health Evaluative Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada cClinical, Social and Administrative Pharmacy, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada dMaternal-Infant Care (MiCare) Research Centre, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada eDepartment of Pediatrics, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada fDepartment of Psychology, York University, Toronto, Canada gDepartment of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada.
• Pain. 2015 Jan 1;156(1):185-91.

AbstractEducating parents about ways to minimize pain during routine infant vaccine injections at the point of care may positively impact on pain management practices. The objective of this cluster randomized trial was to determine the impact of educating parents about pain in outpatient pediatric clinics on their use of pain treatments during routine infant vaccinations. Four hospital-based pediatric clinics were randomized to intervention or control groups. Parents of 2- to 4-month-old infants attending the intervention clinics reviewed a pamphlet and a video about vaccination pain management on the day of vaccination, whereas those in the control clinics did not. Parent use of specific pain treatments (breastfeeding, sugar water, topical anesthetics, and/or holding of infants) on the education day and at subsequent routine vaccinations 2 months later was the primary outcome. Altogether, 160 parent-infant dyads (80 per group) participated between November 2012 and February 2014; follow-up data were available for 126 (79%). Demographics did not differ between groups (P > 0.05). On the education day and at follow-up vaccinations, use of pain interventions during vaccinations was higher in the intervention group (80% vs 26% and 68% vs 32%, respectively; P < 0.001 for both analyses). Educating parents about pain management in a hospital outpatient setting leads to higher use of pain interventions during routine infant vaccinations.

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