Fever and febrile considered as the most common occurring signs of illness during childhood that triggers several concerns among parents.Although it is a natural defense mechanism of some diseases but it still a remarkable source of fear for parents.Our study aimed to assess the knowledge about fever, attitudes and responses of mothers to fever towards their children in Hail City, Saudi Arabia.A cross sectional noninterventional study conducted in Hail, from April 2018and continued for three months.During the study period, 524 mothers of young children participated and completed a self-administered questionnaire.A verbal consent was taken from parents before interviewing them.About 401(76.5%) of them others used thermometer as temperature measuring tools.About half of mothers considered 36.4 °C as a normal body temperature.About third of mothers used a child armpit to measure the body temperature.About 37% considered apathy as a symptom of a high temperature followed by a spasm 31.3%.Majority of mothers (80.4%) selected tonsillitis as a cause of elevated body temperature.Most of mother’s response to a child hyperthermia was by using cooling measures(42.6 %)followed by using antifebrile drugs (30.3 %).For most of the mothers, the agreeable place to use cooling measures was the axilla part (44%).Most of the study sample consider a child age/weight in mind as regard dosage of an anti-febrile drugs (81.1%).Also, 87.8% of them prefer to visit a doctor as a response to an uncontrolled fever.The findings of this study show that most of the mothers in Hail region have a baseline health knowledge regarding fever in children but it's insufficient and they need more health education.
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