PEARL - Pain in Early Life
About this group
Group information
The neonatal pain-lab allows us to study pain alleviation to newborn infants. Photo Lars-Göran Jansson, USÖ
Newborn infants, especially sick or preterm infants, are exposed to a great amount of stress and pain, inflicting short- and long-term negative consequences. The research group studies pharmacological and supporting interventions to prevent and decrease this stress and pain and its effects. Main focuses are the role of parents in pain management, and on knowledge synthetization and transition to those who can and should use this knowledge. We are among the world-leading groups in this area and our results contribute to better pain management in many countries.
The group has a wide national and international research-collaboration and works closely with the international PEARL research group.
Research projects
Active projects
- A hyperscanning study of synchronous brain activity in newborn infants and their mothers during parent-led pain alleviation with skin-to-skin contact, breastfeeding and lullaby singing
- CloROP - Clonidine as pain relief during eye examinations in preterm infants
- Comparative efficacy of pain relieving interventions to reduce procedural pain in neonates: A systematic review and network meta-analysis
- NEOPAM - Developing an Educational Program of Neonatal Pain Management to Improve Knowledge and Attitudes among NICU Nurses
- Parenthood after neonatal care - PANC
- POP - Parent led pain management
- SANNI - Safe analgesia for neonatal intensive care
- SWEpap - Parents, a pain-relieving resource in neonatal care
- The role and competence of the nurse working with neonatal care
- The TAPE study. Pain associated with the use of medical adhesives
Completed projects
- Effects of early support to parents whose infants need neonatal care
- Home-phototherapy for newborn infants with hyperbilirubinemia
- Interventions for the management of Pain and Sedation in Newborns undergoing Therapeutic hypothermia for hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy
- NeoOpioid - No pain during infancy by adapting off-patent medicines
- Parental experiences of Skin-to-Skin Contact: a meta-study
- Skin-to-skin care as pain relief for newborn infants - measured with NIRS - Near Infrared Spectroscopy
- The role of nurses in parental participation in the pain care of infants in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- The role of parents in neonatal pain management - a global survey
Research funding bodies
- Lia och Erik von Sydows stiftelse
- Stiftelsen Sigurd & Elsa Goljes Minne
