The research aims to describe the situation of musculoskeletal pain, risk of chronic musculoskeletal disorders and work-related factors in female sewing machine operator in Tien Thuan garment industry LTD.CO in 2017.

Dang Thi Hong Khanh1*, Nguyen Thi Ut1, Doan Thi Thuy Duong2

1 National Children’s Hospital

2 Hanoi University of Public Health

 

Objective: Fever is a common symptom in children and is managed by the mother at home before hospital. Knowledge and practice of the care of children with fever, especially the management of seizures caused by high fever is very important. This research aims to describe the patterns and some factors related to the practice of infant care of mothers of children under 6 years of age in out_patient_clinic – National Children’s Hospital  in 2017. 

Methods: Analytical description of cross sectional analysis, 423 mothers with children under 6 years of age with fever, examination in out_patient_clinic – National Children’s Hospital.

Results: There are 423 mothers, 52.7% had good knowledge (≥ 70% of the total knowledge score), 10.9% had good practice. Factors related to infant care practice of mothers include: age (the mothers are under 30 years old had better practice than the others), education, geography (the mothers who live in the city had better practice than the other groups), the knowledge of infant care (the knowledge and practice point is a positive correlation, when the knowledge point increases by 1 unit, the practice point increases by 1.2 units); mothers who their children had high fever (> 390C) had a better  practice than the other).

Conclusions: Knowledge, practice of care and management of infants is still limited. Therefore, health care workers need to spend more time, apply different methods of counseling and counseling for health care and counseling. Infant fever is effective for mothers.

Keywords: knowledge, practice of infant care; fever in children, Department of Pediatrics, National Hospital of Paediatrics; mothers care for children with fever

*Corresponding author: Dang Thi Hong Khanh

Work place: National Children’s Hospital

Email: hongkhanhccl@gmail.com

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