Pain Management in Children with Collaborative Parents and Healthcare Team

• Main Authors: Rahim Vakili, Maryam Ajilian Abbasi, Amirhosein Ghazizadeh Hashemi, Gholamreza Khademi, Mansureh Alipour Anbarani, Masumeh Saeidi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences 2015-04-01
• Series: International Journal of Pediatrics
• Subjects: children; Healthcare; Manage; Pain; Parents
• Online Access: http://ijp.mums.ac.ir/pdf_4261_7e55cba9a1849d1ab3223932ee2b37b5.html

Most children in hospital have pain. Seeing your child in pain or discomfort is incredibly difficult. Pain in children is a public health concern of major significance in most parts of the world. We have learned that unrelieved pain causes the body to release certain chemicals that may actually delay healing, so it's important to work with child's nurses and doctors to help children for control the pain. On the other side, medication is not the only way to relieve pain. Pain in children should always be managed and pain expression is dependent on the child’s age, cognitive development, and socio cultural context and it is important to pay particular attention to developmental variations in any behavioural manifestations of pain. In this study to explain some ways for parents and healthcare team to manage pain in children.