Mean pain intensity assessed by children, parents and physicians by children's age, diagnosis, physicians’ perceived concordance between medical condition and pain, painkillers taken before consultation and painkillers administered by the physician during consultation (N=243)
| Children's assessment of pain intensity | Parents' assessment of pain intensity | Physicians' assessment of pain intensity | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | Mean | SD | p Value* | Mean | SD | p Value† | Mean | SD | p Value‡ |
| Total | 5.5 | 2.4 | 4.8 | 2.2 | 3.2 | 2.0 | |||
| Age (years) | 0.609 | <0.001 | <0.001 | ||||||
| 3–8 | 5.4 | 3.1 | 4.0 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 1.5 | |||
| 9–15 | 5.5 | 2.1 | 5.1 | 2.1 | 3.6 | 2.0 | |||
| Diagnosis | 0.387 | 0.002 | <0.001 | ||||||
| Infection | 5.4 | 3.0 | 4.2 | 2.8 | 1.9 | 2.3 | |||
| Wound | 4.7 | 2.9 | 3.6 | 2.3 | 1.8 | 1.0 | |||
| Fracture | 5.8 | 2.1 | 5.3 | 1.6 | 4.5 | 1.9 | |||
| Soft tissue, ligament or muscle injury | 5.5 | 2.2 | 5.0 | 2.1 | 3.3 | 1.6 | |||
| Concordance between medical condition and pain | 0.819 | 0.718 | 0.055 | ||||||
| Low | 5.7 | 2.5 | 5.1 | 2.8 | 2.5 | 1.9 | |||
| Some | 5.6 | 2.3 | 4.8 | 2.1 | 3.0 | 1.7 | |||
| High | 5.4 | 2.5 | 4.7 | 2.2 | 3.4 | 2.1 | |||
| Painkillers by parent | 0.010 | 0.024 | 0.968 | ||||||
| Yes | 6.5 | 2.0 | 5.6 | 2.0 | 3.2 | 1.9 | |||
| No | 5.3 | 2.4 | 4.7 | 2.2 | 3.2 | 2.0 | |||
| Painkillers by physician | 0.004 | 0.141 | <0.001 | ||||||
| Yes | 7.0 | 2.2 | 5.5 | 2.7 | 5.0 | 2.4 | |||
| No | 5.3 | 2.4 | 4.7 | 2.2 | 3.0 | 1.8 | |||
*p Values refer to test children's assessment of pain intensity within different characteristics.
†p Values refer to test parents’ assessment of pain intensity within different characteristics.
‡p Values refer to test physicians’ assessment of pain intensity within different characteristics.