Title: Effectiveness of blunt pressure technique in pain response and satisfaction among patients receiving intramuscular injection

Background: Pain is an ageless universal phenomenon. It is considered to be the’ fifth vital sign’. There are about 16 million injections are given per year worldwide. Pain originating from IM injection should not be underestimated, because a painful injection might incite severe fear of injection, which may lead a patient to delay seeking medical help.

Objective: The study is intended to determine the effectiveness of blunt pressure technique in pain response and satisfaction among patients receiving intramuscular injection. It will also reveal the association of pain and satisfaction with selected demographic and clinical variable and also the relationship between pain and satisfaction

Methodology: Using a Quantitative approach, An experimental study with post test only design will be undertaken to perform the study. Study will be done for 6 weeks of period. Patients receiving intramuscular injection in the 24 hour injection room of emergency department will be the samples. Consecutive sampling technique will be used and the subjects will be randomly allocated to control and experimental group. Patients with infectious skin diseases, bleeding disorder, trauma and injury, cognitively impairment will be excluded from the study. Control group will receive injection using standard technique and experimental group will receive injection using blunt pressure technique. Numeral Rating scale and satisfaction questionnaire will be used to collect the data. Descriptive and inferential statistics will be done using SPSS.