The pain response of infants in Turkey to vaccination in different injection sites

Applied Nursing Research

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 101-105

  Celebioglu, Ayda ^a   Akpinar, Reva Balci ^a   Tezel, Ayfer ^a  

^a ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPHTHERIA PERTUSSIS TETANUS VACCINE;

ARM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYING; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; INNERVATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THIGH; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VACCINATION;

ARM; CLINICAL NURSING RESEARCH; CRYING; DIPHTHERIA-TETANUS-PERTUSSIS VACCINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; MALE; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THIGH; TURKEY; VACCINATION;

EID: 77951531485     PISSN: 08971897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apnr.2008.03.003     Document Type: Article

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