Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Training Given to Mothers With 0-5 Age Group Children for Fire Management

Fever Clinical Trial

Official title:

Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Training Given to Mothers With 0-5 Age Group Children for Fire Management

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06043479
• Other study ID #: Okan Uni
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: April 30, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: September 2023
• Source: Okan University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The research was conducted in a randomized controlled design to evaluate the effectiveness of the fever management training given to mothers of children aged 0-5.

Description:

The research was conducted between January 2023 and April 2023 in the Pediatric Ward of Gebze Fatih State Hospital. The study included 120 mothers, with 60 in the intervention group and 60 in the control group, who had children aged 0-5 years old admitted to the hospital with a complaint of fever. The data was collected using the 'Mother and Child Information Form,' 'Parent's Fever Management Scale (PFMS),' 'Fever Management Knowledge Statements Form (FMKSF),' and 'Follow-up Form. The data were analyzed using appropriate statistical methods in the SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) for Windows 26.0 software package.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 120
• Est. completion date: April 30, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: April 30, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 18 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Mothers with 0-5 age group children in fever
• Must be literate

Exclusion Criteria:

• Discharge before 3 days

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Fever

Intervention

Other:
• Fever Management Education
The mothers were provided with a three-day training consisting of six sessions. Two sessions were held each day, with each session lasting for 30 minutes.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Turkey	.Demet Yildirim	Gebze	Kocaeli?

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Okan University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Turkey, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Mother and Child Information Form	The form was prepared by the researchers based on a literature review. It consists of 7 questions about the demographic characteristics of mothers and their children aged 0-5 years and mothers' fever management.	baseline
Primary	The Parent Fever Management Scale (PFMS)	The scale was developed by Walsh and colleagues (2008), aims to assess what parents do when their child's temperature rises. Its validity and reliability have been established by Cinar et al. (2014). The scale consists of 8 items, and scores can range from 8 to 40. Higher scores on the scale indicate that parents engage in more fever management practices and have more concerns, fever phobia, and parental burden related to fever.	baseline and 3 days and 1 month
Primary	The Fever Management Knowledge Statements Form	The form is a set of 25 statements developed by researchers to measure mothers' knowledge about fever management. These statements were created by reviewing the literature. Afterward, the statements were refined based on the input from five experts.	baseline and 3 days and 1 month
Primary	The Follow-up Form	The form was created by the researchers to track the participants' scores from the pre-test and post-test throughout the study.	through study completion, an average of 3 month