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A patient's demand for comfort and assurance is paramount. A primary nursing duty is to ensure comfort; health care interventions may be performed based on traditions and routines that practitioners no longer critically examine. A broad lens through which to evaluate pain and pain treatment options is the context of comfort. Patients in hospitals frequently experience procedural pain, which they all naturally attempt to avoid. Any intramuscular injection will undoubtedly hurt where it is injected. Individual experiences of pain after intramuscular injection can be influenced by a number of factors, including anxiety, culture, age, gender, and expectations of pain treatment. Aim and Objectives: The purpose of this research is to assess the Helfer Skin Tap Technique's effectiveness in treating intramuscular pain in patients receiving injections at the Bhagyoday Thrift Charity Hospital in Sagar (M.P.). The objectives of this study was to gauge the degree of discomfort before to using the Helfer skin tap procedure, Use the tap technique to gauge the impact of the Helfer skin on the degree of discomfort experienced during intramuscular injection delivery, to assess the difference in discomfort between the application of the Helfer skin tap method and after intervention and using the Helfer skin tap technique, to determine the relationship between a subset of demographic characteristics and the degree of discomfort. Methods: After receiving approval from the Bhagyoday Tirth Charitable Trust in Sage, Madhya Pradesh, the researcher proceeded with data collection, selecting samples using the purposive sampling technique. The researcher received formal permission to conduct the study from the principal of Bhagyoday Tirth Nursing College. The researcher-built relationships with the attendees, staff, and patients and gave assurances regarding the confidentiality of the data gathered. They were administered the intervention named the helfer skin tap procedure and asked to record their answers. In order to analyse the data, descriptive statistics were used. The chi-square test was employed to establish a correlation between the patient's chosen demographic factors and the efficacy of the Helfer skin tap technique for intramuscular injection. Results: The study's outcome and analysis were predicated on the statistical analysis of the "t" test results, which were used to determine whether there was a significant difference in the amount of discomfort experienced during an intramuscular injection before and after using the Helfer skin tap technique. Chi square was utilized to determine whether certain demographic factors were associated with the degree of discomfort experienced after the delivery of an intramuscular injection using The Helfer Skin Tap Technique. The mean difference and "t" test were used to compare the data collection results before and after applying the Helfer skin tap technique. The results indicate that the mean score was 5.33 before and 0.93 after applying the Helfer skin tap technique, with a mean difference of 4. Thus, the outcomes demonstrate the efficacy of the Helfer skin tap procedure. According to the data, 53.33% of adult patients reported no pain, 40% reported mild pain, 6.67% reported moderate pain, and 0% reported severe or worse pain. Conclusion: This study found that the Helfer skin tap method was a highly useful way to lessen injection-related discomfort. According to this research, 53.34% of patients had no pain at all, 40% had mild pain, only 6.67% had moderate pain, and 0% had severe or worse pain. This is a better outcome than what was obtained with the Helfer skin tap approach previously. Prior to the Helfer skin tap, the mean was 5.33; after the skin tap, the mean was 0.93.