DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2016.v04i04.043

Pages: 1328-1333

Pain is one of the common problems after surgery in children that non-pharmacological methods of pain relief have been useful in some forms of the pain but the impact of these techniques, such as relaxation therapy on postoperative pain in children, is unknown. So the aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of relaxation training on the pain after surgery in children admitted to the surgical units of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 2014-2015. The Materials and Methods in This study are a clinical trial, included 104 eight to twelve year old children who underwent surgery and were randomly divided into two groups of control and intervention. Used tools included demographic characteristics questionnaire, a pain rating scale and routine care. The intervention group was trained by Benson relaxation techniques. The control group received routine care. The pain score was measured in both groups, before, one and twelve hours after intervention. The data was collected by SPSS software and analyzed using the chi square test, Fisher's exact test, independent T, one way ANOVA test and Pearson correlation coefficient. The results showed that there was a statistically significant difference in an hour and twelve hours after intervention in both groups. In the intervention group who had received relaxation training in addition to the routine care, reported less pain in comparison with the children in control group who received routine care (p<0.05). In Conclusion the Relaxation can reduce the pain after surgery in the children.