Theme: Parenting/parenthood.

Introduction: Due to lack of information, the fever in the child brings anxiety and fear to their parents.

Objectives: To identify parents’ knowledge towards the child with fever and the sources of information they have used.

Methods: Cross-sectional, descriptive-correlational study. Convenience not probabilistic sample of 360 parents with children in child health surveillance consultation, in central Portugal. Data collection was performed by a questionnaire about fever in children.

Results: Knowledge of the fever was found to be weak among parents aged * 38 years (36.2%) with a partner (77.0%), living in rural areas (69.3%) and having completed the ninth grade (53.9%). Parents up to 37 years (68.2%) with a partner (89.0%), living in urban area (53.0%) and having higher education (43.3%) showed good knowledge. The main sources of information were the doctor (65.8%) and nurses (50.6%).

Conclusion: Nurses need to invest in training parents more on this subject.