Research Article
A Cross-Sectional Study on Subjective Fever Assessment in Children by Palpation: Are Fathers as Reliable as Mothers?
Table 1
Demographic and descriptive characteristics.
| | | Mother (n = 170) count (%) | Father (n = 168) count (%) | value for difference |
| | You are born | | | | | Out of Canada | 44 (25.9) | 55 (32.7) | 0.273 | | Unknown | 0 (0.00) | 1 (0.6) | | Level of education | | | | | High school or less | 44 (25.9) | 58 (34.5) | 0.217 | | College | 92 (54.1) | 76 (45.2) | | Graduate school | 33 (19.4) | 34 (20.0) | | Unknown | 1 (0.6) | 0 (0.0) | | Employment | | | | | Unemployed | 74 (43.5) | 13 (7.7) | <0.001 | | Work less than 30 hrs | 20 (11.8) | 6 (3.6) | | Work 30–60 hrs | 73 (42.9) | 133 (79.2) | | Work 60–90 hrs | 3 (1.8) | 16 (9.5) | | Who spends more time with your child | | | | | You | 116 (68.2) | 10 (6.0) | <0.001 | | Your spouse | 6 (3.5) | 109 (64.9) | | Equal | 48 (28.2) | 49 (29.2) | | Fever as reason of ED visit | 106 (62.4) | 110 (65.5) | 0.527 | | Believe can estimate fever by palpation | 144 (84.7) | 115 (68.5) | 0.002 | | Preferred method of measuring fever | | | | | Thermometer | 111 (65.3) | 108 (64.3) | 0.246 | | Palpation | 36 (21.2) | 44 (26.2) | | Both | 1 (0.6) | 3 (1.8) | | Other | 22 (12.9) | 13 (7.7) | | Site of palpation | | | | | Forehead | 110 (64.7) | 132 (78.6) | 0.029 | | Torso | 14 (8.2) | 10 (6.0) | | Both | 26 (15.3) | 14 (8.3) | | Other | 19 (11.2) | 9 (5.4) | | Unknown | 1 (0.6) | 3 (1.8) | | Number of children at home | | | | | 1 | 77 (45.3) | 74 (44.1) | 0.594 | | 2 | 67 (39.4) | 70 (41.7) | | 3 | 18 (10.6) | 12 (7.1) | | 4 or more | 8 (4.7) | 11 (6.6) | | Unknown | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.6) | | Parents’ age (year) | Mean (SD) 31.1 (6.4) | Mean (SD) 33.7 (6.9) | <0.001 | | Children’s age (month) | Mean (SD) 18.9 (0.9) | N/A |
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values were obtained by the chi-squared test for categorical data and two-group t-test for continuous outcomes. |
