Assessing Children's Anxiety Using the Modified Short State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and Talking Mats: A Pilot Study

Table 3

	Short STAI by proxy	Modified short STAI	Spearman’s correlation	Wilcoxon sign rank test
	Median (range)	Median (range)	(𝑟)	(𝑃-value)
3-4 years
Parents before	10.5 (6–17)
after	10 (6–23)			0.67
Children before		4.5 (4–8)
after		5 (4–8)		0.17
Parents-Children before			−0.28
Parents-Children after			0.50^▲
5-6 years
Parents before	10 (6–18)
after	8.5 (6–19)			0.21
Children before		5 (4–7)
after		4.5 (4–9)		0.67
Parents-Children before			0.19
Parents-Children after			0.27
7–9 years
Parents before	13 (6–19)
after	9.5 (6–16)			0.037∗
Children before		6.5 (5–11)
after		5 (4–6)		0.004∗∗
Parents-Children before			0.47
Parents-Children after			0.15

^∗𝑃<0.05, ^∗∗𝑃<0.01,^▲r = ≥ 0.5.