Factors that Affect the Mother in the Control of Their Child's Fever

A fever is one of the signs and symptoms of disease that often occurs in childhood. Fever in children makes the mother frightened when facing her child's health problems. The mothers assume that every child will develop a seizure fever. The purpose of this study was to find out the factors that influence the mothers when handling fever in the one of First Level Health Facilities in Jogoloyo, Sumobito and Jombang.

The research design was cross-sectional. The population of mothers with toddlers totaled 420 respondents. The sample of 210 respondents was gathered using a simple random sampling technique. The independent variables were factors that influenced the mothers in managing fever in toddlers and the dependent variable was the frequency of fever.

The results of the research show that 67% of the mother's had good knowledge, the frequency of children with a fever was 45% and the mother's who received advice from health workers was 87.3%. Good experiences from their family/friends made up 37.5%. Significant bivariate analysis was conducted on knowledge, the frequency of pain, advice from the health workers and their family/other people's experiences with a p value < 0.05.

Advice from health workers consisted of health education about how to handle fever in children. This can increase the mother's handling of feverish children, therefore structured education is very beneficial for the mother.