Children experience a wide variety of pain including acute, recurrent and chronic and childhood pain has been recorded as one of the top reasons for patient and Dr encounters (Stinson and McGrath, 2007). According to the Royal Australian College of Physicians (2006) pain can have long lasting effects in infants including irritability, depression and poor coping skills, post- traumatic - stress disorder in those who experience extreme procedural pain, needle phobia later in life and pain which…
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