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Healthcare professionals commonly use sweet solutions, such as oral glucose, to relieve pain in infants during heel lances and other procedures. However, there is a lack of knowledge about how mothers perceive the use of oral glucose for pain management.  \nAim: To describe mothers' views on the use of oral glucose for neonatal pain relief.  \nStudy Design: A qualitative descriptive study was conducted in a neonatal intensive care unit in Finland between May 2023 and May 2024. The participants were mothers (n = 25), recruited from a randomised controlled trial (RCT) involving newborns. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews based on an interview guide, and analysed using content analysis. Findings: Mothers' views on the use of glucose for neonatal pain relief consisted of four main categories: ‘Varying perceptions of acceptability’, ‘An easy-to-implement method’, ‘Contradictory opinions on effectiveness’ and ‘Another method would be better’. Conclusions: Mothers found glucose to be an easy-to-use method for neonatal pain relief, but their opinions on its effectiveness varied. They recommended combining glucose with another method or adopting a mother-led approach to improve pain management.  \nRelevance to Clinical Practice: Healthcare professionals should recognise the individual nature of each mother's perception of glucose as a method of newborn pain management and consider this perspective when providing counselling and planning pain relief methods.  \n1 | Introduction  \nInfants admitted to neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) undergo an average of more than seven painful procedures daily [1] . Repeated exposure to untreated procedural pain causes immediate physiological instability [2] and can lead to long-term adverse consequences [3] . The negative effects of neonatal pain also extend to the family. Seeing the infant in pain and being unable to comfort the infant causes significant stress for parents [4], and can increase the mother's risk of post-traumatic disorder after the infant is discharged [5] .  \n1.1 | Background  \nParental involvement in infants' pain management is an essential component of family-centred care [6], and has become one of the main areas of research in neonatal pain management [7–9] . Previous studies show that a wide range of nonpharmacological pain relief methods can be delivered by parents [10], and parental pain relief provides effective pain alleviation for infants [11] . Most parents want to be actively involved in their infant's pain management [12] . This involvement may encompass the provision of pain relief, participation  \nThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.  \n© 2026 The Author(s). Nursing in Critical Care published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Association of Critical Care Nurses.  \nNursing in Critica","cbCaioNGF3diOQ8W","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioNGF3diOQ8W","pdf",309652,"English","# Abstract\n## Background\n## Aim\n## Study design\n## Findings\n## Conclusions\n## Relevance to clinical practice\n# Introduction\n## Background\n## Parental involvement and pain management\n# Pain relief using sweet solutions","[{\"question\":\"What was the purpose of the study about oral glucose?\",\"answer\":\"To describe mothers' views on using oral glucose for neonatal pain relief in a NICU.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the study conducted and what data were used?\",\"answer\":\"A qualitative descriptive study was conducted in a Finnish NICU between May 2023 and May 2024. 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