Table 6 Comparison of changes in school absence between decliners and completers
From: Chronic pain treatment in children and adolescents: less is good, more is sometimes better
| Â | Â | Â | Statistics | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | Â | School absences at return visit | Mann-Whitney U-Test | |||||
School absences & at initial visit |  | Low (0–1 days) | Moderate (2–5 days) | High (>5 days) | U | Z | p-value | r |
Low (0–1 days) | decliners | 20 (95.2) | 1 (4.8) | 0 | 742 | 0.2 | .858 | - |
completers | 66 (94.3) | 3 (4.3) | 1 (1.4) | Â | Â | Â | Â | |
Moderate (2–5 days) | decliners | 6 (46.2) | 6 (46.2) | 1 (7.7) | 265 | -3.6** | <.001 | |-.395| |
completers | 62 (88.6) | 6 (8.6) | 2 (2.9) | Â | Â | Â | Â | |
High (>5Â days) | decliners | 11 (61.1) | 4 (22.2) | 3 (16.7) | 1252 | -0.3 | .902 | - |
| Â | completers | 82 (63.1) | 26 (20.0) | 22 (16.9) | Â | Â | Â | Â |