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.
Highlights
Fever is a condition when the human body temperature increases from its normal temperature above 37°C.Fever is one of the many symptoms when a person's body has an infection or disease (Cahyaningrum, 2017)
The main cause of fever in children according to Widagdo (2012) is due to typhoid fever, respiratory tract infections, measles, and gastrointestinal infections.Currently fever is in the first place of the most symptomatic emoat experienced by children namely fever 33.4% cough 28.7% cough and fast breath 17.0% and diarrhea 11.4%.Based on the results of a survey conducted by the National Family Planning and Population Agency in 2017, in Indonesia the prevalence of fever of children aged 6-23 months is more susceptible to fever (37-39%)
The average number of well-knowledgeable mothers is 45%. 2) Process: Treatment of fever in children, the average resulted from 7 journals were 46.90% to 68.10% of mothers handled fever well, an average of 57.87% of mothers handled fever well, and 7 other journals showed that 32.90% of mothers used antipyretics to overcome fever
Summary
Fever is a condition when the human body temperature increases from its normal temperature above 37°C.Fever is one of the many symptoms when a person's body has an infection or disease (Cahyaningrum, 2017). Complications that threaten a child's safety such as seizures and even decreased consciousness can occur if not treated properly and quickly (Maharani, 2011).In fever with a temperature of 41°C the risk of death reaches 17%, and when it reaches 45°C will result in death in the child in a short time (Said, 2014).In Indonesia as much as 465 (91.0%) of the 5511 mothers used the technique to find out their child's body temperature was only 23.1% using a thermometer (Setyowati, 2013).The technique of perpetuation to know body temperature is highly discouraged due to temperature inaccuracies and cannot be known if body temperature increases rapidly to a dangerous level. The results of the 2013 National Health Survey showed that 20-25% of children died from maternal error treating fever in their child
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