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The Winamwanga at times considered fever as an illness on its own in the under five children.
On the other hand the paediatricians who, wrongly, considered fever a body temperature above 38°C decreased from 41.2%too 29.7% (198/480 vs. 89/300; P = 0.001).
An axillary temperature higher than 37.8°C was considered fever when determined at the time of clinical assessment or as reported by the child's guardian.
To enable comparisons between the literature and parents' definitions of fever, temperatures 36.0 37.9°C were considered normal temperature and more than 38.0°C were considered fever [ 8, 23].
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Considering fever, a bed net intervention with efficacy of 75% and 80% coverage had the same impact as a bed net intervention with 80% efficacy and ∼68% coverage.
It is possible these parents have different expectations and experiences considering fever.
The results confirm our hypothesis that having a Turkish background and a low SES increases the likelihood of considering fever as a troublesome event.
Although the body temperature varies even within the same individual and is influenced by circadian rhythm, physical activity, and other factors, from a practical point of view both the World Health Organization and the IFG recommend to consider fever as body temperature above 37.5°C.
For the purpose of this study, we have considered Dengue Fever (DF) or Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) as a single entity 'dengue' as such kind of information was not available from many studies.
The accuracies (sum of sensitivity and specificity) of the following 3 fever screening methods were compared by using oral thermometry as reference: 1) self-reported fever, 2) ITDS at optimal fever detection threshold, and 3) combination of ITDS and self-reported fever with a positive result on either method considered a fever.
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