Bibliographic citations
Caro, S., Vargas, D. (2019). Conocimiento y prácticas sobre fiebre en madres de niños menores de 5 años en San Juan Bautista – 2019 [Tesis, Universidad Científica del Perú]. http://repositorio.ucp.edu.pe/handle/UCP/850
Caro, S., Vargas, D. Conocimiento y prácticas sobre fiebre en madres de niños menores de 5 años en San Juan Bautista – 2019 [Tesis]. PE: Universidad Científica del Perú; 2019. http://repositorio.ucp.edu.pe/handle/UCP/850
@misc{renati/1037168,
title = "Conocimiento y prácticas sobre fiebre en madres de niños menores de 5 años en San Juan Bautista – 2019",
author = "Vargas Macedo, Dalia Rubí",
publisher = "Universidad Científica del Perú",
year = "2019"
}
Background: fever is one of the main reasons for pediatric emergency visits; it is being a concern for parents, since they suspect an infectious problem and they make use of antibiotics without medical recommendations. Objective: To determine the knowledge and practices about fever in mothers of children under 5 San Juan Bautista-2019. Material and Methods: descriptive, cross-sectional design; the sample consisted of 167 mothers of children under 5 years. A questionnaire about knowledge and practices on fever was applied; validated and configured from similar studies. Results: 61.7% of the mothers are between 20 and 34 years old,54.5%are not married, and 63.5% with secondary education. 45.5% have adequate knowledge about fever, it is associated with the mothers older age(p=0.020) and more instruction degree(p=0.005). 58.7% with marital status(p=0.004) and more instruction (p=0.019). the adequate knowledge was significantly related (p=0.001) with adequate fever practices. Conclusion: the mothers have an inadequate knowledge about fever, but they have an adequate practice about fever.
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