2025, Vol. 7, Issue 2, Part C

author(s)
Kavitha Rani and Gowthami BN

abstract
Every human being has a natural need to protect both their own and others' health. Being ignorant makes it impossible to meet this commitment. Injections can be administered intramuscularly, intravenously, subcutaneously, or intradermally. Procedural pain is a primary source of suffering for patients receiving nursing care. It is the nurse's responsibility to use the most effective approach of pain management because providing pain relief is considered one of the most important human rights. Effective pain treatment not only relieves physical suffering, but it also improves quality of life. The study volunteers, thirty in each of the experimental and control groups, were chosen by a rigorous random sampling method. Only babies in the experimental group got Helfer skin tapping. The FLACC pain scale was used to assess pain at zero minutes. The findings indicate that there was a significant difference in the posttest pain scores of newborns during IM injection at 0 minutes between the experimental and control groups. This discrepancy was statistically verified using the independent "t" test. The study's findings also revealed that there was no significant relationship between the infants' pain assessments during an IM injection at 0 minutes utilizing the Helfer skin tap technique and their selected personal characteristics. As a result, the study concluded that the Helfer skin tap technique was effective in reducing infant discomfort during vaccinations.