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Nursing personnel's attitudes towards fever and antipyresis of adult patients: cross‐sectional survey

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  • Panagiotis Kiekkas
  • Evangelos Konstantinou
  • Kalliopi‐Styliani Psychogiou
  • Iliana Tsampoula
  • Nikolaos Stefanopoulos
  • Nick Bakalis

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Aims and objectives To investigate the attitudes of nurses caring for hospitalised adult patients towards fever and antipyresis and to identify the predictors of these attitudes. Background Fever is a host defence mechanism, whose harmful effects are limited to specific patients. Findings about antipyretic treatment have further challenged the need for routine or aggressive fever suppression. Unfortunately, nurses continue to be fever phobic, while their attitudes towards fever and antipyresis considerably affect antipyretic practice. Design Prospective, cross‐sectional, multicentre survey. Methods A convenience sample of registered and assistant nurses employed in surgical/medical wards and intensive care units of nine Greek hospitals was enrolled. The developed questionnaire included 10 multiple‐choice, knowledge‐evaluating items about fever and antipyresis, 10 Likert‐type attitude‐evaluating items towards fever and 10 towards antipyresis. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to identify the predictors of attitudes towards fever and antipyresis. Results The attitudes of the 458 participants were found to be relatively positive towards both fever and antipyresis. Lower fever/antipyresis knowledge score predicted both negative attitude towards fever (p = 0·001) and positive attitude towards antipyresis (p

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  • Panagiotis Kiekkas & Evangelos Konstantinou & Kalliopi‐Styliani Psychogiou & Iliana Tsampoula & Nikolaos Stefanopoulos & Nick Bakalis, 2014. "Nursing personnel's attitudes towards fever and antipyresis of adult patients: cross‐sectional survey," Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 23(19-20), pages 2949-2957, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jocnur:v:23:y:2014:i:19-20:p:2949-2957
    DOI: 10.1111/jocn.12551
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    1. Jane V Carey, 2010. "Literature review: should antipyretic therapies routinely be administered to patient fever?," Journal of Clinical Nursing, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 19(17‐18), pages 2377-2393, September.
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