Effectiveness of Musical Play Material on Reducing Intensity of Pain among Children during Vaccination

Abstract

Pain is the most common of all medical symptoms. Pain is a multidimensional, subjective phenomenon and hence, it is difficult to define. Everyone experiences pain, and each can define it different ways as their own personal experience. Pain is often defined as a subjective experience having three components i.e. cognitive (in-self report), behavioral and physiological. The present study was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of musical play material on reducing intensity of pain among children during vaccination in a Kengeri PHC at Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The researches approach adopted for this study is evaluative approach. The research design adopted for this study was true experimental posttest design was applied. The simple random sampling method was used to select the sample for the study. The sample consists of the 60 children (30 experimental groups and 30 control group) in selected PHC at Bangalore, Karnataka, India. The instrument used for the data collection was structured questionnaire for assessing the demographic variables and the standardized FLACC (face, leg, activity, cry, consolability) behavioral pain assessment scale is used to observe the intensity of pain. The data was planned to analyze based on objectives and hypothesis of study. The obtained data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics and interpreted in the terms of objectives and hypothesis of the study. The level of significance was set at 0.05. Finding reveals that 24(80%) participants were having mild pain, 4(14%) were having moderate pain, 2(6%) were having severe pain in experimental group while administering musical therapy during vaccination among children, but 2(7%) were having mild pain, 18(60%) were having moderate pain, 10(33%) were having severe pain in control group and none of them showed relaxation and comfortable state, thereby showing that musical play materials are effective in reducing the intensity of pain among children during vaccination in experimental group.