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Table 1 Quotes general findings

From: “One time I fell, but I didn’t have to cry.” A qualitative study on everyday physical complaints in children

Interview quotes (I: Interviewer; P: participant)

Quote 1 – Boy, age 4

I: Yeah. When do you have to stay home from school?

P: Um when he has a fever.

I: When he has a fever. Yeah. And what-

P: I once had a fever too.

I: You once had a fever too?

P: Yes, almost a whole day.

Quote 2 – Girl, age 5

I: Does he feel like eating something?

P: Well, I don't think so with that tummy ache.

I: No. Do you feel like eating something when you have a tummy ache?

P: Well. Then I usually eat, my mommy makes me eat something, but then all I eat is a banana.

Quote 3 – Girl, age 5

I: His tummy. Yes. What's wrong with his tummy?

P: He has a tummy ache.

I: Yeah. How’s that?

P: Maybe he's feeling poorly.

I: Yeah.

P: But I don't feel very well either.

I: You don’t feel so well either?

P: (quietly) No.

I: What's bothering you?

P: My tummy too.

I: Your tummy too? Hmm, that's annoying. And how come-

P: I've had it for a very long time.