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Universidad Médica Pinareña 2020; 16 (3)

Knowledge and attitude of parents of children with fever in an Amazonian population

Cruz-Reategui ME, Vásquez-Dávila CP, López-Chumbe T, Gómez-Arévalo ML, Iglesias-Osores S

Language: Spanish
References: 19
Page: 1-7
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: cafever is one of the most common medical problems experienced by children. It is clinically defined as a body temperature of 1°C or more above the mean standard deviation at the site of recording.
Objective: to determine the relationship between the level of knowledge and beliefs with parental attitudes towards fever in children under five years old attending emergency and pediatric services.
Methods: an observational, descriptive and cross-sectional study on 335 parents who attended twice or more the MINSA II-2 Tarapoto Hospital due to the occurrence of fever in their children. The variables studied were the level of knowledge, attitudes towards fever and socio-demographic variables.
Results: parents were between the ages of 20 and 29 (63,6 %) and 77 % were female. Secondary education (33,7 %) and higher education (33,7 %) predominated; 53,4 % of them reported having only one child, and 60 % of them worked; 95,2 % of the parents showed insufficient knowledge and 62,4 % showed a non-optimal attitude in the occurrence of fever in their children. An association was found between attitude and level of knowledge (p<0,02).
Conclusions: most of the parents with fever-phobia were young females and first-time parents, with university studies. There was insufficient knowledge on the part of the parents, as well as non-optimal attitudes, both variables correlated.


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