Table 4.
Agreement between pain assessments (yes/no) by caregivers and investigators.
Dentist reporting of presence of pain | Parent-reporting of presence of pain | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Healthy children | Children with ID | |||
No | Yes | No | Yes | |
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | |
No | 5 (41.7) | 0 | 1 (20) | 0 |
Yes | 7 (58.3) | 41 (100) | 4 (80) | 23 (100) |
Kappa | 0.53 | 0.29 | ||
P value | 0.0001∗ | 0.03∗ |
∗Statistically significant at α = 0.05.