Injections are the most painful procedures during childhood. To ensure adequate pain relief and to make pain more tolerable and to give the infants a sense of control over the situation, many pharmacological and non pharmacological strategies have been tried. As health professionals, various distractions like toys, music etc. can be used as diversion therapy to reduce the pain of infants receiving injections. The main purpose of the study was to assess the effectiveness of diversion therapy among infants receiving injection to help them to cope with pain. With experimental research approach quasi experimental post-test only control group design was used. The tools used were baseline proforma and Neonatal Infant Pain Scale. Using purposive sampling technique 60 samples were randomly assigned to control and experimental groups, 30 in each group. Samples in the experimental group were given diversion therapy before during and after the injection. The result showed that infants in the experimental group experienced less pain than that of the control. The study concluded that diversion therapy is effective and can be used by the paediatric health care professionals in their day today clinical practice to help infants cope with their pain.
