Fever phobia is a term that has been used to describe the exaggerated and unrealistic fear of fever expressed by parents and carers. Since the term was first used in the early 1980s, there have been numerous publications and guidelines stating that fever is not, in itself dangerous, however these fears persist.Investigate the extent of fever phobia and to explore potential associations with time, under-5 mortality rate and geography.Embase (1980 to week 1 2015) and Medline (1946 to week 1 2015) were searched using the terms 'fever' and 'phobia'; and 'fever phobia' as a free text term. One additional paper was published during the review period.Studies giving proportion of parents, carers or professionals expressing fear of fever.Meta-analysis and cluster analysis using metafor, meta and Cluster in R.Fear of brain damage, coma, convulsions, death and dehydration was high across many of the studies; however there was significant variation as shown by the high I(2) scores which exceeded 95

作者：Edward, Purssell；Jacqueline, Collin

来源：International journal of nursing studies 2016 年 56卷