Children's coping with venipuncture

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
M J Hodgins, J Lander

Abstract

Children's strategies for coping with the pain and distress of venipuncture were examined in this descriptive study. Eighty-five children (aged 5-13 years) were interviewed prior to and following blood collection. Prior to the procedure, children reported pain expectations and coping strategies that might be used. Self-reports of the pain experienced and coping strategies used were obtained immediately after the procedure. Twenty-seven different strategies were identified from the children's responses. These strategies were subsequently grouped into 11 coping categories: Active Involvement in Procedure, Behavior-Regulating Cognitions, Cognitive Reappraisal, Direct Efforts to Maintain Control, Diversionary Thinking, Emotion-Regulating Cognitions, Information Seeking, Reality-Oriented Working Through, Reliance on Health-Care Interventions, Support Seeking, and Avoidance and Catastrophizing. Direct Efforts to Maintain Control was the most frequently used category. Age and gender differences were observed in both number and type of strategies reported by the children. Further research is needed to examine the observed relationship between the type of coping strategies generated and the children's pain experience.

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