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In an effort to get up-to-date research findings about children鈥檚 pain directly into the hands of parents, Dr. Christine Chambers and her team at the Halifax-based Centre for Pediatric Pain Research, have partnered with YummyMummyClub.ca (YMC) on a year-long social media campaign called It Doesn鈥檛 Have to Hurt. The work is funded by a grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
鈥淧oorly managed pain in children is a serious and on-going health problem; it results in unnecessary suffering and long-term negative effects,鈥 says Dr. Chambers, a clinical psychologist at the IWK Health Centre and a professor in 麻豆传媒鈥檚 departments of Pediatrics and Psychology & Neuroscience.
鈥淲e know that it generally takes 17 years for research findings to change patient care. Through the It Doesn鈥檛 Have to Hurt initiative, we want to make a more immediate difference in the area of pediatric pain management 鈥 for the sake of parents and their kids.鈥
"It makes so much sense," says Erica Ehm, creator and owner of YMC, the largest independently owned online magazine in Canada. "Our writers are great storytellers, and they create easily digestible content. As parents, we don't always know how to take medical information or research results and apply it to our lives, but readers will see the practical application in a real-life environment with this content."
Over the next twelve months, the It Doesn鈥檛 Have to Hurt initiative will include YMC blogs on children鈥檚 pain, and parents will be engaged through Twitter chats, Facebook posts, and videos. 聽A wide range of pain-related topics will be covered on , and then shared through their social media channels.
鈥淭hrough this partnership, we鈥檒l be providing parents with cutting-edge information on managing newborn pain, how to deal with stomachaches and headaches, how to reduce vaccination pain, and so much more,鈥 says Dr. Chambers. 鈥淵MC will make the information fun and engaging for parents, and push it out over their social media, which has an extended reach of over 5 million people per month.鈥
Not only will Dr. Chambers and Ms. Ehm be documenting the reach of all their content, they are surveying and interviewing parents about their awareness and use of evidence-based pain management strategies, both before and after the initiative, to study the impact of this work on children鈥檚 pain.
鈥淲e think this approach has incredible potential as a way to mobilize research evidence not only for pediatric pain, but in other areas of children鈥檚 and women鈥檚 health,鈥 says Dr. Chambers.
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Media contacts
Allison Gerrard
麻豆传媒 Medical School
allison.gerrard@dal.ca
902.222.1917
Ben Maycock
IWK Health Centre
ben.maycock@iwk.nsheath.ca
902.470.7086
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Dr. Christine Chambers (right) and Monica Brown, a former pediatric pain patient (left). September 2015 |
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