The effect of Aromatherapy Parent Education in Alleviating Injection Pain Among Children Submitting to Vaccination

Hassan Ali, Hend; Yousef Salah, Nouran; Wahid Amer, Hoda; Ragab  Mohamed, Hoda; Hussein Abdelhalim, Eman

doi:10.21608/ejhc.2021.146728

The effect of Aromatherapy Parent Education in Alleviating Injection Pain Among Children Submitting to Vaccination

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Fellow of Community Health nursing in Obstetrics and Gynecological hospital-Ain Shams University

² Lecturer of Pediatrics Medicine - faculty of medicine Ain Shams University

³ Lecturer of Pediatric nursing- College of Nursing –Misr University for Science and Technology

⁴ Lecturer of Pediatric nursing- Faculty of nursing –Ain Shams University

⁵ Fellow of Biochemistry in Obstetrics and Gynecological hospital- Ain Shams University

10.21608/ejhc.2021.146728

Abstract

Background: Aromatherapy parents’ education about pain alleviation during child
vaccinations supports family-centered care and has the potency to progress pain care
management in children. Aim of the study: evaluate the effect of aromatherapy parent
education intervention (massage with lavender oil) in alleviating injection pain among
children submitting to vaccination. Subject and methods: Quasi experimental design two
groups have been utilized in this study at vaccination clinics in El-Demerdash health
office" affiliated to Abbasis zone and Elkhalij Elmasry primary health center in Hadayek
Elkobba Zone, governmental medical centers, Ministry of Health and Population, Cairo,
Egypt. It included 120 children Submitting to Vaccination selected by purposive sampling
technique according to inclusion criteria, and randomly designate into two groups; register
either in control (60) or study (60) group. The data was collected by using 1) Structured
interviews questionnaire in Arabic to assess personal data characteristic of children and
parent; 2) knowledge assessment tool (pre/post) to assess parent’s knowledge regarding
aromatherapy treatment and pain management after children vaccination;3) beliefs and
attitudes of parent assessment tool;4) procedural pain assessment tools which included two
parts, the first portion was Modified Behavioral Pain Scale (MBPS) , developed by
(Taddio et al, 1995)and the second portion was Cry duration in seconds. The data was
collected between a period of august 2019 and January 2020. Results: A significant
improvement was in total knowledge about aroma treatment and pain management after
vaccination among children’s parent in posttest as compared to pretest assessment
(p < 0.0001). A significant improvement was in total mean scores of MBPS components in
study group with lavender oil massage during five minutes after vaccine injection as
compared to control group with highly statistically significant (p < 0. 001). A significant
improvement was in the total mean cry duration in study group as compared to control
group with highly statistically significant (p < 0. 001). Conclusion: Aromatherapy parents’
education, leg massage by lavender oil was found efficient in alleviating vaccine injection
pain. Recommendation: Applying Aromatherapy Education programs for new parents in
all pediatric primary health care centers to increase parents’ awareness about vaccine
injection pain alleviation.

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