Since pain is a complicated phenomenon, its precise nature is yet unknown. When someone is in pain, they frequently see it as their only option and want pain alleviation above all other interventions. Pain is an entirely personal experience. Objectives: to compare the effectiveness of Helfers skin tap technique vs natural method on level of pain related to IM injections among patients receiving IM injections in selected hospital, Kalaburagi.

Methodology: A evaluative approach with quasi experimental two group pretest-posttest design was adopted for the study. The samples from the selected hospitals were selected using convenient sampling technique. The sample consisted of 60 patients receiving IM injections (30 in each group). The tools used for data collection was Numerical pain scale.

Results: With regard to experimental group 1 pre-test level of pain it shows that, maximum 19(63.3%) respondents were had severe pain and remaining 11 (36.7%) respondents were had moderate pain. During post-test maximum 20 (66.7%) of respondents were had mild and remaining 10(33.3%) of respondents were had moderate pain. In experimental group 2 pre-test level of pain it shows that, maximum 23(76.7%) respondents were had severe pain and remaining 7 (23.3%) respondents were had moderate pain. During post-test maximum 29 (96.7%) of respondents were had mild and remaining 1(3.3%) of respondents were had moderate pain. With respect to experimental group 1, the statistical paired ‘t’ implies that the difference in the pretest and post-test value was found statistically significant at 5% level (p<0.05) with a paired ‘t’ value of 15.38. In experimental group 2, the statistical paired ‘t’ implies that the difference in the pretest and post-test value was found statistically significant at 5% level (p<0.05) with a paired ‘t’ value of 10.41. There will be significant difference in the mean posttest pain scores of participants of both groups and both groups have differed with respect to level of pain in post-test. As mean pain scores of experimental group1 is lower than experimental group 2 it is inferred that, Helfers skin tap technique was more effective in reducing the level of pain among the participants of experimental group 1 as compared to natural method for reducing the pain among the participants of experimental group 2.

Conclusion: The findings revealed that, level of pain among participants in both experimental groups during pre-test was moderate to severe and is reduced as low in both experimental group after exposure to hand and Helfers skin tap technique.