Dental Pain in Children with Intellectual Disabilities: Caregivers’ Perspective

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.