A True Experimental Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Warm Water Footbath Therapy on Fever Among Children Age Group 4-9 Years at Selected Hospitals, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh

Abstract

The current study aimed to assess the effectiveness of warm water footbath therapy on fever among children age group 4-9 years at selected hospitals Bilaspur C.G. True experimental research design is utilized to achieve the stated. Objectives: 1. To assess the level of fever among children (age group 4-9 years) in the control group. 2. To assess the level of fever among children (age group 4-9 years) in the experimental group. 3. To assess the effectiveness of warm water foot bath therapy on fever among children (age group 4-9 years) in the experimental group. 4. To find out association between the post test level of fever among children (age group 4-9 years) in the experimental group and control group with selected demographic variables. Hypothesis: H1: There will be significant difference between level of fever among children (age group 4-9 years) in experimental and control group after application of warm water foot bath therapy.H2: There will be significant association between level of fever after application of warm water foot bath therapy among children (age group 4-9 years) in experimental and control group with their selected demographic variables. Projected Outcome/Hypothesis: The present study, true experimental research design is used to achieve the stated objectives. The study was based on the conceptual framework of modified General System Theory Ludwig von Bertalanffy. A quantitative research approach is used and pilot study was conducted to confirm the feasibility of the study. For main study simple random sampling was used on 40 samples of children age group 4-9 years with fever. The tool used for data collection consists of sociodemographic variables and used of standardized digital thermometer. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics where the results show the findings depicted that in the view of inferential statistics there is decrease in the level of fever after warm water footbath therapy in children worked out to compare the difference in level of fever between control group and experimental group. The difference in mean level of fever between control group and experimental group was observed to be 0.91, which was statistically highly significant (t=7.99, df=39) at 0.05 level. Hence H1 is accepted.