INJECT (Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication)
Vol 5, No 2 (2020)

Health communication: mother's knowledge and treatment of fever in children

geby mora (Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan Yatsi, Tangerang, Indonesia)
Ria Setia Sari (Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan Yatsi, Tangerang, Indonesia)
Febi Ratnasari (Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Kesehatan Yatsi, Tangerang, Indonesia)



Article Info

Publish Date
13 Jan 2021

Abstract

Fever is in the first place of some of the most symptoms experienced by the child, the treatment of fever depends heavily on the role of parents especially the mother, The lack of knowledge possessed by the mother causes misperception of fever, this misperception results in inappropriate behavior in dealing with fever in the child then it is necessary to know further the level of maternal knowledge and treatment of fever in the child. This literature is to analyze journals on the level of maternal knowledge and the treatment of fever in children. The design of the research used in this study was literature review. This literature study through scientific publication search results with the range of 2015–2020 using the Research Gate, NCBI, Ebsco and Google Scholar databases.journals that correspond to the title and results of the synthesis matrix grouped into three parts namely input, process and output. Of the 20 articles analyzed entirely showed there is a link between maternal knowledge level and fever treatment in children, the average result of 45% of mothers with good knowledge level and 57.87% of mothers handling fever in children appropriately.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

INJECT

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Computer Science & IT Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

INJECT Journal is an academic journal published by Faculty of Dakwah State Institute for Islamic Studies (IAIN) Salatiga. INJECT journal focuses on the discussion of interdisciplinary communicatin, social-religious research that includes culture, social development and institution management using ...