Determination of Factors Affecting Fever Management of Parents Who Bring Their Children to the Emergency Department with High Fever

İngilizce (OpenAlex)

Introduction: This study was conducted to determine the factors affecting fever management of parents who bring their children to the emergency room with high fever.Methods: This descriptive study was conducted with the parents of children aged 6 months to 5 years who presented to the pediatric emergency department of a state hospital in the southeastern region of our country with complaints of high fever.Data for the study were collected using the "descriptive characteristics form" prepared by the researcher and the "parent fever management scale".In the evaluation of the data, percentages, means, standard deviations, The study was completed with the participation of 252 parents.Percentage, mean, standard deviation, Kruskal-Wallis, Mann-Whitney U, ANOVA, t-test, and post hoc Scheffe and Jonckheere-Terpstra tests, which are advanced analysis techniques, were used in the evaluation of the data. Results:As a result of the analysis, the average score of the participants on the parental fever management scale was calculated as 31.43±4.50.It was determined that parental fever management was influenced by factors such as the educational level of the mother and father, economic status, and place of residence.Conclusion: Considering the minimum and maximum scores that can be obtained from the parent fever management scale, it can be stated that parents' fever management is above average.