Putting the Child Back into Patient-Centered Care:
Understanding, Preventing, & Managing
Needle-Related Pain & Fear
January 31, 2024 | 10:30 - 11:30 AM (ET) | Virtual (Zoom) | FREE
Why Attend?
This webinar is an opportunity for you to ask questions, gain clarity on the wide range of vaccine-related information, and build confidence in discussing vaccination with your clients in the family support sector.
If you're a professional whose work requires direct interactions with young children, you NEED to attend this webinar!
Session
Overview
Did you know that 2 out of every 3 children and 1 out of every 4 adults is afraid of needles? It doesn't have to be this way.
With the recent decline in overall childhood vaccination rates, understanding common barriers to vaccination is crucial to continue building vaccine confidence.
With funding from the Public Health Agency of Canada and in partnership with Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP), Families Canada is working to increase the capacity of the family support sector to support vaccine confidence in Canadian communities through a series of webinars answering the most pressing childhood vaccination-related questions.
This webinar will provide:
- An overview of pain and fear related to needles
- Science-backed strategies to make vaccination more comfortable for children and their caregivers
Who Can Benefit
From This Session?
- Community organizations that work with families from disadvantaged or marginalized groups
- Family support service providers
- Frontline staff, management, executive officers
- Families Canada members
Session
Speaker
Dr. Meghan McMurtry
Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Guelph
Director of the Pediatric Pain, Health, and Communication Lab Clinical and Health Psychologist with the Pediatric Chronic Pain Program at McMaster Children’s Hospital
C. Meghan McMurtry is an Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Guelph, director of the Pediatric Pain, Health, and Communication Lab, and a Clinical and Health Psychologist with the Pediatric Chronic Pain Program at McMaster Children’s Hospital. Dr. McMurtry was the Co-Principal Investigator on the national Help Eliminate Pain in Kids and Adults Team which created two clinical practice guidelines for vaccination pain and needle fear management; aspects from the pain management guideline were endorsed for vaccinations worldwide by the World Health Organization (WHO). She is a member of the CARDTM scientific team, which makes the pain management guideline actionable. Dr. McMurtry was the sole psychologist on the subcommittee for the WHO’s Global Advisory Committee on Vaccine Safety tasked with creating guidance on immunization stress-related responses.
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