Chinese nurses’ use of non‐pharmacological methods in children's postoperative pain relief

Abstract

While Chinese nurses used versatile non-pharmacological methods in school-aged children's postoperative pain relief, there remains a need for more education about pain management and for more frequent use of these methods in clinical care.

Turkish Pediatric Nurses’ Use of Non-Pharmacological Methods for Postoperative Pain Relief in 6 to 12 Year Old Children

“…A low response rate may be attributed to many factors as lack of time, poor research instruments and demotivated respondents. He et al reported, that a high response rate 98% indicates a study as important and interesting [9]. This finding is not similar to our results.…”

“…Whereas, He et al [9,34] and Çelebioğlu et al [35] reported, that cognitive-behavioural methods are most commonly used. This statement is not consistent with our findings.…”

“…He et al [9] demonstrated, that no nurse used TENS for relieving pain. Pölkki et al [12] showed, that nurses do not use TENS in pediatric postoperative care nursing.…”

“…Preparatory information (including cognitive and sensory information, and different ways of giving information) was the most commonly reported cognitive behavioural strategy used by Chinese nurses [9] and finnish nurses [12] studies. In this research study positive reinforcement was the most commonly used cognitive behavioural method.…”

“…[9,12,32]. The questionnaire consisted of four close-ended questions about the pediatric surgical nurses' socio-demographic characteristics (e.g.…”