Background: Lack of proper understanding of important pediatric acute pain management concepts
can lead to under-treatment of pediatric pain and ultimately impact the quality of child care. Today's
multimedia training methods are considered important and necessary for continuous and lifelong
education. Aim: to evaluate the effect of an educational program through a lecture versus
multimedia methods on pediatric nurses' knowledge and attitude regarding acute pain management.
Subjects and Methods: Design: A quasi-experimental design is used in this study. Setting: The
study was conducted in pediatric wards in Sohag, Egypt. Sample: A convenient sample included 45
pediatric nurses are randomly divided into two groups. The tool used for data collection consists
of two parts: Part I deals with the demographic characteristics of nurses as designed by the
researchers. Part II is based on the pediatric nurses' knowledge and attitudes survey (PNKAS) on
pain; it was designed by Manworren (2001). Results:The study showedthat the multimedia group < /div>
showed an improvement in their knowledge compared to the lecture group, the majority of them
after program implementation was satisfactory level regarding the knowledge and attitude on pain
management with highly significant differences ((p <0.001). The pediatric nurses' total knowledge
means scores showed improvement in the multimedia group compared to the lecture group < /div>
immediately, one week, and one month after program implementation. A significant improvement is
observed in pediatric nurses' knowledge retention one month after educational program
implementation. Conclusion: Both lecture and multimedia methods of education improved the level
of knowledge and attitude of pediatric nurses in pediatric acute pain management by the PNKAS
scale. However, the nurses' level of knowledge and attitude in the multimedia group was higher
than that in the lecture group. Recommendations: Future multimedia studies should examine the
pediatric nurses' improvement in their knowledge, attitudes and practices as well as retention of
knowledge over an extended period.