Table 3.

Spearman’s correlations with child demographic variables

	Age	Sex	ISS	SES
Injury talk	0.14	0.03	−0.09	0.07
Direct injury talk	0.10	−0.11	−0.12	−0.01
Indirect injury talk	0.09	0.08	−0.07	0.11
Overall injury talk tone	0.02	0.00	0.08	0.08
Mother injury talk tone	−0.18	−0.04	−0.19	0.12
Father injury talk tone	−0.21	0.01	0.28	0.24

N ranged from 29 to 71.

Sex: male=0, female=1. (Direct/indirect) injury talk is depicted as a percentage of wake time.

*p<0.05.

ISS, Injury Severity Score; SES, socioeconomic status, measured by the Index of Relative Socioeconomic Disadvantage.