{"id":923598,"date":"2026-10-07T04:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T04:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/923598\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T04:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T04:40:15","slug":"immunizing-against-pain-and-fear-rethinking-the-vaccination-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/923598\/","title":{"rendered":"Immunizing Against Pain and Fear: Rethinking the Vaccination Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\">She compares overlooking distress to skipping a step as basic as keeping vaccines refrigerated, and describes her group&#8217;s aim as immunizing against pain and fear as well as disease. Taddio also stresses the safety stakes: fear can escalate to dizziness and fainting, which can lead to injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Taddio also reflects on the main shortcoming of the earlier guideline. It offered a long list of do\u2019s and don&#8217;ts, with little direction on how clinicians should actually put them into practice. That gap shaped how the panel packaged the update, which now presents 16 recommendations organized across 5 domains of distress management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Watch the full episode to hear Taddio explain why primary care clinicians should rethink how they approach the vaccination experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Relevant disclosures for Anna Taddio, PhD, include GSK Chair in Vaccine Education and Practice-Oriented Tools.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">References: <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">1. Taddio A, Shah V, McMurtry CM, et al. Reducing distress during vaccine injections: 2026 clinical practice guideline update. CMAJ. 2026;198(32):E1243-E1263. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/content\/198\/32\/E1243\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">doi:10.1503\/cmaj.260123<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">2. Taddio A, McMurtry CM, Shah V, et al; HELPinKids&amp;Adults. Reducing pain during vaccine injections: clinical practice guideline. CMAJ. 2015;187:975-982. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cmaj.ca\/content\/187\/13\/975\/T1\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">doi:10.1503\/cmaj.150391<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She compares overlooking distress to skipping a step as basic as keeping vaccines refrigerated, and describes her group&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":923599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84],"class_list":["post-923598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=923598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/923598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/923599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=923598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=923598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=923598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}