Child fever management: A comparative study of Australian parents with limited and functional health literacy

Muahammad Alqudah, Leanne Cowin, Ajesh George and Maree Johnson

Nursing & Health Sciences, 2019, vol. 21, issue 2, 157-163

Abstract: Health literacy, or the ability to read and understand health information, is critical to the health of children. In this study, we compared the fever management knowledge of parents attending the emergency department with a child with fever. A cross‐sectional survey of 33 parents/carers with limited health literacy and 122 with functional health literacy was undertaken. There were no differences in the overall proportion of correct responses to knowledge or management questions posed by the two scales between the two groups. Both groups presented with limited knowledge and poor practices (

Date: 2019
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