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ArticleNursing open2023

Perspectives of nurses regarding pain assessment and management during routine infant vaccination in Ghana.

Emma Annan, Tendani S Ramukumba, Bonnie J Stevens

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Article in Nursing open, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Reducing distress during vaccine injections: 2026 clinical practice guideline update.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Emma AnnanUniversity of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.ORCID 0000-0001-9348-7919
Tendani S RamukumbaTshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa.
Bonnie J StevensLawrence S Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Tshwane University of Technology · ZAUniversity of Ghana · GHUniversity of Toronto · CA

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimTo explore the perspectives of nurses regarding pain and its management during routine infant vaccination at the Child Welfare Clinics in Ghana.

designQualitative descriptive design.

methodsQualitative in depth, in-person interviews using a semistructured interview guide were conducted with 19 Registered Nurses who were were purposively sampled from three selected Child Welfare Clinics in hospitals in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana, The Tesch cotent analysis procedure was followed for the analysis of interview data.

resultsNurses were aware that the injections they give infants are painful. They described how infants exhibit certain behaviours to express pain. Although nurses support infant pain management during vaccination, they rarely use evidenced-based pain interventions.

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AwarenessPainChildGhanaHumansInfantPain MeasurementVaccination

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PMID37431276
PMCPMC10333841
OpenAlexW4378072100

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