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A Clinical Study of Mother's Understanding About Children's Fever.
Seung Joo Lee
Clin Exp Pediatr. 1982;25(8):791-799.   Published online August 31, 1982
One hundred mothers bringing their children to a pediatric outpatient deparment of Ewha Womans University Hospital were surveyed about their understanding of fever and method of fever therapy. Most mothers(91%) were unduly worried about low to moderate grade fever with the temperature of 39degrees C or less. They didn't know the thermoregulatory mechanism and thought that fever can rise to...