International Journal of Nursing Research

Objective To explore the effect of psychological counseling combined with comfortable position nursing intervention on the pain degree of elderly patients undergoing intramuscular injection, and to provide a basis for optimizing the nursing scheme of intramuscular injection for elderly patients. Methods A total of 106 elderly patients who received intramuscular injection in our hospital from January 2024 to January 2025 were selected as the research subjects, aged 50 to 80 years old. Patients were randomly divided into two groups. The observation group received nursing intervention of psychological counseling combined with comfortable position care, while the control group was given routine nursing. The Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) was adopted to evaluate the pain degree of patients during intramuscular injection, and the pain scores of the two groups after intervention were recorded and compared for analysis. Results Comparison between groups showed that, the degree of intramuscular injection pain in 106 patients was significantly reduced compared with that under routine nursing, the average VAS score decreased obviously (P<0.05), and most patients had a high degree of satisfaction with the nursing intervention. Conclusion Psychological counseling combined with comfortable position nursing intervention can effectively reduce the pain degree of elderly patients during intramuscular injection, improve patients' medical experience, and is worthy of popularization and application in clinical intramuscular injection nursing for elderly patients.

Elderly patients; Intramuscular injection; Psychological counseling; Comfortable position nursing; Pain degree