Table 4: Distribution of children based on the assessment algorithm and actual coping behavior during blood sampling (n = 38).
Spearman’s rank-correlation coefficient (exact test), r = -0.74, p = 0.000 Grey shading indicates the number of children whose coping skills were estimated higher than their actual coping behavior.
| Actual coping behavior during blood sampling | Total |
| 2 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 10 | |
| Assessment algorithm | Category 4 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Category 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Category 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 13 |
| Category 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 |
| Total | 7 | 12 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 38 |