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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Practices Used For Relieving Pain In Pediatric Age Groups
Şengül Üzen Cura1, Tanju Oğul2, Fatma Yılmaz Kurt31Lecturer, Çanakkale Eighteen Mart University Department of Nursing, Istanbul, Turkey2Research Assistant, Çanakkale Eighteen Mart University Department of Nursing, Istanbul, Turkey
3Assistant Professor, Department of Nursing Çanakkale Eighteen Mart University of Çanakkale, Turkey
This study aims to systematically investigate nursing studies on the Complementary and Alternative Therapies (CAT) for interventional
pain management in pediatric age groups in Turkey. Within the scope of the research, the studies published in Turkish and English languages in the last 5 years (January 2012-December 2016) and found using the keywords “complementary medicine”, “alternative medicine”, “child” and “pain” were examined. As a result of the study, 15 nursing studies, in which CAT practices had been applied regarding pain management in pediatric age groups in Turkey, were selected. The sample of the study consisted of these 15 articles. Of these studies, 13 were randomized controlled experimental, 1 was non-randomized experimental and the other 1 was quasi-experimental study.
It was determined that the CAT practices applied in 14 of the studies were interventional to relieve pain, whereas one of them
was found to have no effect on pain. Although CAT has been used to reduce pain in pediatric age groups in Turkey in recent years, it is necessary to increase the number of evidence-based studies for a wider acceptance of complementary and alternative
therapies.
Manuscript Language: English
