Conclusions
Cultural factors were found to have influence on
children's pain in several ways:
1) Certain cultural factors, such as kinship, religion
and economic resources may promote children's pain
management.
2) Cultural traditions, such as circumcision and
physical abuse may serve as major reasons for children's
pain acceptance, experiences and occurrence.
3) Parents' low level of education and occupation and
living in rural areas may be reasons for children's poor
pain relief and parents' acceptance of pain.
4) Leininger's Cultural Care Theory can be utilised
universally while studying factors influencing children's
pain.
The findings of this study provided challenges for
further research:
1) More cultural research is needed to understand
ethno-history influencing tradition in the context of pain
in different cultures.
2) Research is needed to identify those nursing
interventions that can be utilised to enable the most
effective pain relief in children.
3) Further research should be conducted by using
cultural research methodology.