Fever
Conditions
Keywords
Child, fever,, mother,, fever management,, education
Brief summary
The research was conducted in a randomized controlled design to evaluate the effectiveness of the fever management training given to mothers of children aged 0-5.
Detailed description
The research was conducted between January 2023 and April 2023 in the Pediatric Ward of Gebze Fatih State Hospital. The study included 120 mothers, with 60 in the intervention group and 60 in the control group, who had children aged 0-5 years old admitted to the hospital with a complaint of fever. The data was collected using the 'Mother and Child Information Form,' 'Parent's Fever Management Scale (PFMS),' 'Fever Management Knowledge Statements Form (FMKSF),' and 'Follow-up Form. The data were analyzed using appropriate statistical methods in the SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) for Windows 26.0 software package.
Interventions
OTHERFever Management Education
The mothers were provided with a three-day training consisting of six sessions. Two sessions were held each day, with each session lasting for 30 minutes.
Sponsors
Okan University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
NONE
Intervention model description
control group and intervention group
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
FEMALE
Age
18 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
Yes
Inclusion criteria
* Mothers with 0-5 age group children in fever * Must be literate
Exclusion criteria
* Discharge before 3 days
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Mother and Child Information Form | baseline | The form was prepared by the researchers based on a literature review. It consists of 7 questions about the demographic characteristics of mothers and their children aged 0-5 years and mothers' fever management. |
| The Parent Fever Management Scale (PFMS) | baseline and 3 days and 1 month | The scale was developed by Walsh and colleagues (2008), aims to assess what parents do when their child's temperature rises. Its validity and reliability have been established by Cinar et al. (2014). The scale consists of 8 items, and scores can range from 8 to 40. Higher scores on the scale indicate that parents engage in more fever management practices and have more concerns, fever phobia, and parental burden related to fever. |
| The Fever Management Knowledge Statements Form | baseline and 3 days and 1 month | The form is a set of 25 statements developed by researchers to measure mothers' knowledge about fever management. These statements were created by reviewing the literature. Afterward, the statements were refined based on the input from five experts. |
| The Follow-up Form | through study completion, an average of 3 month | The form was created by the researchers to track the participants' scores from the pre-test and post-test throughout the study. |
Countries
Turkey (Türkiye)
Outcome results
None listed