Abstract :
Febris is a medical term that is moe commonly known as fever in the public, when a body temperature is more than 370C. Non-pharmalogical treatments is by using tepid sponge therapy compress. Tepid sponge compress is one of warm water compress technique which combined of block and wipe techique. This study used aims to determine the influence of tepid sponge compress on the decrease of body temperature in fever patient in the paviliun Yoseph I RS. RK. Charitas Palembang. This study used quantitative of research, by using pre-experiment with one group pretest-posttest design, sampling method by simple random sampling with the sample consisted of 20 respondents. The results of this study found body temperature before intervention with mean value is 38.170C and mean body temperature after intervention is 37.420C. From tested pearson product moment value 0.001 < 0.05 and than relationship of body temperature after before intervention is 0.903** the meaning is there was relationship very strong. Tepid Sponge compress techique highly recommended to overcome the fever.