Table 6.
Comparison of changes in school absence between decliners and completers
| Statistics | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| School absences at return visit | Mann-Whitney U-Test | |||||||
| School absences & at initial visit | Low (0–1 days) | Moderate (2–5 days) | High (>5 days) | U | Z | p-value | r | |
| Low (0–1 days) | decliners | 20 (95.2) | 1 (4.8) | 0 | 742 | 0.2 | .858 | - |
| completers | 66 (94.3) | 3 (4.3) | 1 (1.4) | |||||
| Moderate (2–5 days) | decliners | 6 (46.2) | 6 (46.2) | 1 (7.7) | 265 | -3.6** | <.001 | |-.395| |
| completers | 62 (88.6) | 6 (8.6) | 2 (2.9) | |||||
| High (>5 days) | decliners | 11 (61.1) | 4 (22.2) | 3 (16.7) | 1252 | -0.3 | .902 | - |
| completers | 82 (63.1) | 26 (20.0) | 22 (16.9) | |||||
Note: Frequencies are depicted as n (%).
&School absence is reported for children aged six years and older.
Boldface data reflect significant differences between the two groups.