The Clinical journal of pain
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Multicenter Study Observational Study
Pediatric Immunization Distress: A Cluster Analyses of Children's, Parents' and Nurses' Behaviors During the Anticipatory Phase.
Using cluster analysis, we aimed to identify a typology of nurses', parents', and young children's behaviors during the anticipatory phase of pediatric immunizations to explore the associations between these different typologies and to determine whether these groups differed with respect to the child's procedural distress as rated by the child and the parents and with respect to the adults' self-rated distress. ⋯ The results confirm previous dimensional studies and add relevant knowledge concerning typologies of participant behaviors that may be useful in understanding such behaviors and in helping providers in their management of child immunizations.