Effectiveness of Blunt Pressure Technique on Level of Pain during Intramuscular Injection among Patients Attending Out Patient Department at Selected Tertiary Care Hospital, Coimbatore.

Introduction: Pain is a continuous, most complex and sensory response for every one life. It is defined as an unpleasant, subjective, sensory and emotional human experience. Many non- pharmacological techniques are used to reduce pain one among them is Blunt Pressure Technique. This technique involves using plastic blunt pins pressure is given to the injection site there by the pain transmission and perception is reduced. Methodology: The research design adopted in this study was quasi experimental post-test only control group design. Purposive sampling technique was used to select 50 study participants, among them 25 samples were allotted in interventional group and 25 samples in routine care group. For the interventional group IM injection was given using Blunt Pressure Technique, routine care group received injection as per Hospital routine technique and the level of pain was assessed for both groups using Standardized Numerical Pain Rating scale Result and Discussion: The mean and Standard Deviation pain score for interventional group was 0.48±0.3 and routine care group 2.6±0.4 Independent paired ‘t’ test value (t=21.2) was higher than the table value and statistically significant at the level of p<0.001.Demographic variables such as Age (χ2=8.460) and Clinical variables such as Type of medication (χ2=3.84), Presence of co morbid illness (χ2= 5.99) found to have association with the level of pain. Conclusion: The study concluded that Blunt Pressure Technique was effective in reducing the level of pain during intramuscular injection.