Child's Body Temperature Determination by Mothers

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This study is the product of a questionnaire to mothers of nursery school children. It analyses the present situation of children's temperature determination by mothers. These points were made clear. 1. Virtually all of the mothers using mercury thermometers and about 80 percent of the mothers using digital thermometers took axillary temperature. 2. About 60 percent of the mothers using mercury thermometers took the temperature for 5 minutes and about 20 percent for 3 minutes. 3. About 80 percent of the mothers said they knew their own child's normal temperature. About 60 percent of the mothers placed the normal temperature between 36.0℃ and 36.4℃. 4. More than 80 percent of the mothers went to medical clinics when their own child's temperature was between 37.0℃ and 38.4℃. About half of the mothers went to see a doctor when their own child's temperature was in the 37.0 to 37.9℃ range. 5. Problems identified were the confusion of the length of temperature determination time because of the spread of digital thermometers and because of the lack of appropriate instructions for using thermometers.
愛知教育大学の論文
1987-02-25