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
(%)
(%)
(%)
(%)
No
5 (41.7)
0
1 (20)
0
Yes
7 (58.3)
41 (100)
4 (80)
23 (100)
Kappa
0.53
0.29
value
0.0001
*
0.03
*
*
Statistically significant at
α
= 0.05.