Child – parent agreement on reports of disease, injury and pain

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Musculoskeletal pain

	Never, almost never (1)		Now and then (2)		Daily complaints to once a week (3,4 & 5)
	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys
Students rating	48	62	30	31	6	9
	57	61	36	30	5	4
	No		Now and then		Yes
Parents rating	58	67	24	28	2	6
	69	63	29	28	2	6

General complaint by the child of musculoskeletal pain not attributed to an injury or illness rated on a 5 point Likert scale by the students and by the parents by the alternatives; no, now and then and yes. Number of subjects in bold and percent in italic.

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