Analgesic efficacy of breastfeeding as a not pharmacological treatment for heelstick in term infants

Abstract

The general objective was to assess the analgesic efficacy of breastfeeding as a nonpharmacological treatment in the puncture of heel for blood sampling in neonates at term in the Hospital Distrital Santa Isabel El Porvenir in December 2014. He is study a quasi-experimental applied to a sample of 100 infants distributed in two groups of 50. It was found that the analgesic effect of breastfeeding after the heel Lance was at 48% of infants (average score of 1.79 + 0.45.) and in 52% there was no analgesic effect (average score of 3.58 + 0.86) with statistically significant differences between the two groups. The analgesic effect of the placebo after the heel Lance was 8% (average score 2 + 0.0) and there was no analgesic effect in 92% (average score 5.24 + 1.41) with statistically significant differences between the averages of both groups. The analgesic effect of breastfeeding was higher than placebo with a moderate positive relationship (R=0.455), i.e. there are statistically significant differences in breastfeeding compared with placebo administration. (p = 0.000). It was concluded that breastfeeding was analgesic effect in 48% and placebo 8% of infants after heel Lance. Breastfeeding has greater analgesic efficacy than placebo.