Background Administration of oral sucrose with and without non‐nutritive sucking is the most
frequently studied non‐pharmacological intervention for procedural pain relief in neonates. …

The current International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) definition of pain as “An
unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue …

Objective: Inadequate assessment of pain in premature infants is a persistent clinical problem.
The objective of this research was to develop and validate a measure for assessing pain …

The aim of this study was to systematically review the psychometric properties, interpretability
and feasibility of self-report pain intensity measures for children and adolescents for use in …

Background Infant acute pain and distress is commonplace. Infancy is a period of exponential
development. Unrelieved pain and distress can have implications across the lifespan. …

When conducting photo elicitation interviews (PEI), researchers introduce photographs into
the interview context. Although PEI has been employed across a wide variety of disciplines …

Using data from one of our randomised trials, we investigated post-hoc whether male neonatal
circumcision is associated with a greater pain response to routine vaccination at 4 or 6 …

Objective. To determine the effect of being in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) on
pain responses in infants of 32 weeks' postconceptual age (PCA). Design. A cross-sectional …

Acute pain is a highly complex, dynamic, subjective experience that is useful to growing
children, serving to warn them of danger and limiting exposure to additional injury. Children …

Background Children being cared for in hospital undergo multiple painful procedures daily.
However, little is known about the frequency of these procedures and associated …