Infant Pain Management at Home: Evaluation of Parental Knowledge and Attitudes

Purpose: This study was conducted to determine the knowledge and attitudes of parents with 0-1-year-old infants applied to a family health center about pain assessment and management at home.Methods: A comparative, correlational, descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted with 203 parents. To collect the data " Personal Information Form " and "Parental pediatric pain assessment and management knowledge and attitude questionnaire" were used. Number, percentage, mean±standard deviation was used to analyze descriptive data; Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis for comparative statistics; Spearman correlation analysis for correlational statistics. Results: Of the parents, 96.6% were mothers, and 67.8% brought their infants for vaccination/injection. Most parents reported feeling competent in recognizing (66.5%) and managing (60%) their baby’s pain at home. The mean scores of the parents for pain assessment and management at home were found to be knowledge 7.49±2.36, attitude 12.65±2.10 and total 20.14±3.47. Parent type (mother), family type (extended), infant age, and chronic illness status were among the sociodemographic variables with statistically significant differences (p