AbstractPain is the most common reason people present for health care, pain costs to society are exorbitant, and pain can have a widespread impact on all aspects of life. Attention plays an important role in the perception of painful stimuli. The subjective experience of pain requires a person to attend to and process painful sensory inputs. The present study has been designed to evaluated the effect of distraction technique in reducing the pain and behavioral distress in the children. Total 50 school age children participated during the study conducted at J.L.N Hospital and Research centre, Bhilai (C.G). Result confronted that audiovisual group perceived less pain and demonstrated less behavioral distress than the psychological intervention group.
Keywords: Efficacy; Audiovisual Distraction; Routine Psychological Support; Pain Behavioral Distress; School Age Children.