Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / This study was undertaken to find out the factors which contributed to the difference in attendance and non- attendance of preschool children at a child health conference. It was conducted in an urban-suburban community in southeastern Rhode Island which had a population in 1960, of 14, 750 of whom 10. 5 percent were under five years of age. The sample was limited to eighteen mothers whose infants had been admitted to the child health conference during a three year period. Of these eighteen mothers, nine met the criteria for regular attendance, and nine met the criteria for non- attendance. An interview schedule and a check list of child health conference services for preschool children were developed to collect the data. Mothers in each of the two attendance groups were interviewed in their own homes by the investigator. [TRUNCATED] / 2999-01-01

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2999-01-01

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2999-01-01

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Children may experience pain or discomfort during routine checkups, examinations, and procedures. The most common source of this pain is routine childhood vaccinations. This pain is known as procedural pain. Nurses have limited access to most nonpharmacologic pain relief interventions, but toys are simple to acquire and implementing this intervention falls within the nurses’ scope of practice. The purpose of this review of the literature was to explore current research and determine the efficacy of toys used as distraction to reduce procedural pain in children. A database search literature of CINAHL Plus with Full Text, APA PsychInfo, and MEDLINE databases was conducted. Six articles were evaluated for the effectiveness of toys on reducing procedural pain in the pediatric population. Relevant research suggested the use of toys as distraction is effective in less pain and less negative emotion in pediatric patients during simple procedures like vaccinations and phlebotomy. Further research is needed on the use of distraction for known painful procedures to further supports its routine use.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University / PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you. / 2999-01-01

Thesis (M.H.A.)--University of Michigan, 1971.

Thesis (M.H.A.)--University of Michigan, 1971.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Michigan, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references.