A Cross-Sectional Study on Subjective Fever Assessment in Children by Palpation: Are Fathers as Reliable as Mothers?

Table 2

Assessment of fever by mothers and fathers.

	Mother	Father	value for difference
	count/n (%)	count/n (%)
Correctly estimated fever	126/170 (74.1)	122/168 (72.6)	0.755
Correctly estimated fever over 39°C	77/122 (63.1)	77/130 (59.2)	0.527

values were obtained by the chi-squared test.