Review of Pediatric Pain Management: Non-Pharmacological Approaches (Published)
Nonpharmacological management as an alternative approach to reducing pain intensity among children has recently been widely tested in experimental studies. Many types of nonpharmacological pain management were investigated at different medical invasive procedures. Therefore, it’s difficult to determine which approach is more effective for pain reduction among children. That is why this review is made. The current review aims to introduce an evidence base on pain management among children by applying the nonpharmacological approaches only. The data was carried out by searching the available databases such as Google Scholar, Research Gate, Semantic Scholar, and PubMed. The included studies were available free for download and were published for the last ten years. All selected studies were looking for the effect of nonpharmacological pain management among the pediatric population. 15 studies were selected according to study criteria out of 640 available studies.15 studies met the inclusion criteria, all studies include one type or more methods of nonpharmacological pain management for children, that tested the effect of such approaches on pain level. The non-nonpharmacological pain management approaches are approved to be as effective as and occasionally better than the pharmacological pain management approaches. This review highlights that adopting the nonpharmacological pain management approaches is effective and may be better than the pharmacological approaches in reducing the associated pain during medical procedures. This review draws a step for further research for new and creative approaches to decrease children’s pain and increase their compliance during painful medical procedures.
Keywords: and pediatric pain or children's pain., non-drug pain management, non-pharmacological pain management, nursing management of pain