Mother Approaches to Children with Fever

Objective: Fever, one of the most common symptoms of childhood, is a complaint that the families worried about the most. The families want to know its reason, and it constitutes a significant part of visits to emergency department. In this study, it has been aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitude, antipyretic drug status of the families who bring their children with the complaint of fever, the doses of antipyretic drug and the factors affecting them. Methods: The mothers of 300 children without known chronic disease, who were brought to the Children's Emergency Department of our hospital with complaints of fever between 1-31 March and between the hours of 08:00 to 16:00 and who agreed to complete a questionnaire, were included in the study. Results: One hundred and twenty-seven (42.3%), 173 (57.7%) and 52% of 300 patients enrolled in the study were female, male and under the age of three, respectively. It has been determined that 96% of mothers thought that fever was harmful to