Determination of the Knowledge and Practice of Mothers with Children Aged 0-6 Years About High Fever

Abstract

Aim: We aimed to determine the knowledge and practice of mothers with children aged 0-6 years about fever in this study. Methods: 214 mothers with children aged 0-6 were included in the study in family health center between in January and February 2014. The data was collected by demographic information form and a questionnaire about the knowledge and practice of mothers. Results: In our study, we observed that 99 of the mothers (46.3 %) measured fever of children at home. 200 (93.5%) mothers preferred first family health center, 14 (6.5 %) preferred second or third level health services when children have a raised body temperature. We observed that166 (77.6%) mothers admitted to the medical center on the first day of raised child's temperature, 48 (22.4%) mothers admitted to the medical center on the second day of raised child's temperature. It was observed that antipyretic application was applied by 206 (96.3%) mothers. The first application for reducing the fever; 51.9% of children take their clothes off, 27.6% of gives antipyretic, and 18.2% put their children in the bath, 2.4% makes cold application. Conclusion: In our study, most of the mothers who have brought children aged 0-6 to family health center have knowledge about fever and it has been observed that the morhers exhibited appropriate behavior.

Keywords

• High fever
• 0-6 age group
• mothers