الفهرس 
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Abstract
Fever is a common manifestation present in most of infections. In some children severe fever can cause convulsion. The aim of this study was to identify the effect of nursing intervention on prevention of febrile convulsions recurrence among children.
Design: Aquasi- experimental design was used with pre - post test. Setting: The study was conducted at the outpatient clinics in Menouf Fever Hospital, Menouf district, Menoufia governorate. Sample: A convenient sample of 500 children and their mothers. Tools of the study: The tools consisted of three parts: The first part was: -
a)Interviewing questionnaire for socio-demographic data. b):-Assessment of mother’s knowledge and practices: It included questions about fever and febrile convulsion and its management. Part 2: Temperature checklist to measure child body temperature was used throughout the study. Part 3: follow up schedule for 6 months to determine the frequency of recurrence of febrile convulsion episodes, and evaluate the effect of the nursing intervention. Results: The study revealed that, male children were the predominance who had febrile convulsions than females. The majority of cases had positive family history of febrile convulsion. Nearly, half of febrile convulsion cases were from 6 month to 1year.There was highly statistical significant improvement in mother’s knowledge and practices at the post test compared with that of the pre test. There was statistical significant improvement among the second, third, fifth &six months of follow up compared to the first month. Conclusion: Empowering mothers of children with febrile convulsions under 5 years with knowledge and practices necessary for decreasing frequency of recurrence episodes at the end of 6 months. Recommendation: Health education for fever and febrile convulsions prevention should be performed at the outpatient clinics using booklets, posters and other mass media to improve mother’s knowledge and practices. A similar study can be replicated on nurses of the outpatient clinics to evaluate their knowledge and practices toward fever and febrile convulsions.