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Demam adalah peningkatan suhu tubuh lebih dari normal. Orang tua cenderung agresif memberikan antipiretik yang bisa menyebabkan hepatotoxicity. Penelitian ini mengidentifikasi efektivitas pemberian informasi terhadap pengetahuan, sikap dan keterampilan orang tua dalam penanganan demam pada anak. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain quasi experiment pre dan post test design. Jumlah sampel 46 responden, dibagi menjadi kelompok kontrol dan intervensi. Teknik pengambilan sampel dengan consecutive sampling. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya peningkatan secara bermakna pada kelompok intervensi dalam aspek pengetahuan), sikap, dan keterampilan (p= 0,000; 0,008; 0,001; α= 0,05) orang tua dalam penanganan demam. Pemberian informasi dengan media booklet dapat diterapkan di rumah sakit untuk meningkatkan kemampuan orang tua dalam penanganan demam pada anak.The Provision of Information Increases The Parents? Knowledge, Attitudes, and Skills in The Fever Treatment in Children. Fever is a condition which the body temperature was high. Parents often give antipyretic aggressively, which causes hepatotoxity. The aim of this study was identify the effect of information on parents? knowledge, attitudes and skill of children fever management. This study used quasi experiment with pre and post test design. Number of samples were 46 respondents, it was divided into two groups: control and intervention. Sampling technique used a consecutive sampling. The results of the study indicated that the knowledge, attitude, and skill of the parents were increased significantly for the intervention group (p= 0.000; 0.008; 0.00; α= 0.05). Health information by using booklet can be applied in hospitals to increase parental ability in children fever management. |
