Helfer skin tap technique on pain associated with intramuscular injection among adult patients

An experimental study is undertaken to evaluate the effective of Helfer Skin Tap technique on pain associated with Intramuscular Injection among adult patients. The objetive of the study to compare the level of pain experienced by patients receiving Intra Muscular injections with using the ‘Helfer Skin Tap technique’ and Usual Standard Technique & effectiveness of helper skin tap technique in reduction of level of pain. In this study simple random sampling technique is used to select 60 post operative adult patients (30 patients in each group). Group I is Experimental group got injection with Helfer skin tap technique where the Group II is Control group got injection with usual Standard technique. An observation checklist with Numerical Rating Scale is used to assess the procedural pain among the patients. Post test is conducted twice a day for 2 consecutive days. Unpaired t test is applied to check the effectiveness of Helfer Skin tap technique. The calculated value of t= 42.02 and the df 58. The tabulated value of t under 5% level of significance for 58 df = 2.01 but the calculated value of t = 42.02 which is much higher than the tabulated value. The study finding revealed that Helfer skin tap technique is more effective than the Usual standard technique in reduction of pain associated with Intramuscular Injection among adult patients.