Childhood Fever
Modelling the effect of malaria endemicity on spatial variations in childhood fever, diarrhoea and pneumonia in Malawi
... At community level (i.e. at all 560 EAs), malaria endemic- ity (measured using prevalence of infection) was included, assuming that each child at each site was equally exposed to the underlying risk. Malaria prevalence ...
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Attitudes and subjective norms: determinants of parents’ intentions to reduce childhood fever with medications
... Childhood fever management is an emotional issue motivated by fear of harmful outcomes ...Reducing fever reduces concerns about harmful outcomes from fever ...reducing fever with ...
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Beliefs and practices regarding childhood fever among parents: a cross-sectional study from Palestine
... about fever and practices in childhood fever management in a large sample of ...recognise fever in their child by non- measurement methods such as observing by touching the ...of fever ...
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Managing childhood fever and pain – the comfort loop
... to childhood fever, pain in children is also a sig- nificant source of anxiety for the parent and adequate pain management helps reduce parental anxiety, which may reduce the child's' anxiety and aid ...
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CHILDHOOD FEVER AND ITS MANAGEMENT: DIFFERENCES IN KNOWLEDGE AND PRACTICES BETWEEN MOTHERS AND FATHERS IN TAIF; SAUDI ARABIA
... This study has some limitations. It was conducted in one city in the country this limits the generalizability of the results to all parents in the country. Future research in the topic must include a representative ...
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Childhood fever of unknown origin (FUO) – A Pandora box
... of childhood fever of unknown origin ...enteric fever in initial two months of ...of fever, multiple joint pain, right eye pain where she underwent evaluation for ...developed fever, ...
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A Commentary on "Parents’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs of Childhood Fever Management in Jordan": The Role of Healthcare Professionals in Caregiver Fever Phobia
... as fever, this powerful yet frequently misunderstood physiologic response has been documented in a variety of animal species besides humans, including fish and ...to fever by caregivers and medical ...
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Parents' Knowledge, Attitudes and Beliefs of Childhood Fever Management in Jordan: a Cross-Sectional Study
... However, childhood fever may also be due to serious bacterial illnesses, such as urinary tract infections, septicemia, meningitis, and pneumonia, 20 and may present complications, such as convulsions, ...
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An illness focused interactive booklet to optimise management and medication for childhood fever and infections in out of hours primary care: study protocol for a cluster randomised trial
... to fever-related symptoms, as well as information on natural course of infections, benefits and harms of (antibiotic) medications, self-management strategies and ‘ safety net ’ ...physician-measured fever ...
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Childhood Fever: Correlation of Diagnosis With Temperature Response to Acetaminophen
... Within each diagnostic group, the initial temperatures of the patients with two-hour temperature measure-. ments did not differ significantly from those having[r] ...
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A study on parental perspectives towards childhood fever
... developing fever while others seek medical care after a few days of initiating home ...of fever for which they adopt a variety of measures including administering antipyretic drugs and tepid ...sponging. ...
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Understanding Interpretations of and Responses to Childhood Fever in the Chikhwawa District of Malawi
... resolving fever has been previously highlighted [40] and has become more important with the increasing recognition that many childhood fevers are not due to malaria ...
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Socio cultural predictors of health seeking behaviour for febrile under five children in Mwanza Neno district, Malawi
... of fever strongly influ- enced health-seeking ...that childhood fever is due to witchcraft or are linked to mater- nal ailments, such as ...related childhood fever since it was believed ...
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An Investigation of District Spatial Variations of Childhood Diarrhoea and Fever Morbidity in Malawi
... and fever morbidity in Malawi using the 2000 Malawi Demographic and Health ...and fever were both observed to show an interesting association with a child’s ...
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Integrated paediatric fever management and antibiotic over treatment in Malawi health facilities: data mining a national facility census
... paediatric fever management using RDT and IMCI, including other presenting complaints, completed assess- ments, diagnoses/classifications, and treatment prescrip- tions ...
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Congo fever – a fatal hemorrhagic fever
... Congo fever is a widely distributed vector borne viral disease, seen in different regions of the world. CCHF virus (CCHFV), which belongs to the Nairovirus genus and Bunyaviridae family, is causative agent for ...
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Risk of hospitalisation with fever following MenB vaccination : self-controlled case series analysis
... 6 The results have shown a significant increased risk of hospital admission with fever within 7 three days of the routine childhood immunisation schedule at 8 and 16 weeks dose 1 and 3 8[r] ...
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Vitamin A supplementation and childhood morbidity from diarrhea, fever, respiratory problems and anemia in sub-Saharan Africa
... of childhood illness is high. As exposure to VAS and occurrence of childhood illnesses were determined based on the recall of mothers without any clinical or laboratory investigations, misclassification ...
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The relationship between reported fever and Plasmodium falciparum infection in African children
... include fever, presumably because of poorly developed functional immunity through the first five years of life, but fever alone remains a poor discrimi- nator of malaria infection suggesting that all fevers ...
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Changes in inequality of childhood morbidity in Bangladesh 1993-2014: a decomposition analysis
... although childhood morbidity is decreasing over the study period, socioeconomic inequalities still ...under-five childhood morbidity have occurred nationally in ...the childhood morbidity in the ...
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