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. 2018 Jun 10;8(1):010802. doi: 10.7189/jogh.08.010802

Table 4.

Ordinal questions, agreement and weighted kappa coefficients for total group (N = 409) and comparison between group 1 (n = 183) and group 2 (n = 226)

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Total group
Group 1
Group 2
No. of pairs
% agreement
Cicchetti-Allison and Fleiss-Cohen kappa
95% CI
P-value
No. of pairs
Cicchetti-Allison and Fleiss-Cohen kappa
95%CI
No. of pairs
Cicchetti-Allison and Fleiss-Cohen kappa
95% CI
9: how much did child drink during diarrhoea
14
85.7
0.66, 0.60
0.23-1.00, 0.07-1.00
<0.001, 0.01†
8
0.53, 0.44
0.005-1.00, -0.18-1.00
6
1.00, 1.00
1.00-1.00, 1.00-1.00
10a: how much did child eat during diarrhoea
11
45.5
0.37, 0.37
0.05-0.70, -0.08-0.83
0.02†, 0.09
5
0.70 0.83
0.34-1.00, 0.58-1.00
6
0.13, 0.05
-0.10-0.36, -0.26-0.36
10a: how much did child eat during diarrhoea*
6
4/6 agree
0.64, 0.74
0.21-1.00, 0.35-1.00
0.03, 0.049†






10: child had been introduced to complementary foods 12 8/12 agree

CI – confidence interval

*We excluded children whose caregivers said that they had not been introduced to complementary feeding by either face-to-face interview or text messaging.

P < 0.05.