Assessing Neonatal Pain with NIPS and COMFORT-B: Evaluation of NICU’s Staff Competences

Table 7

NIPS, interrater agreement item analysis (N = 34 in all cases).

	Kendall’s W coefficient  < .01		Krippendorff’s alpha (95% confidence interval)
	1^st measurement	2^nd measurement	1^st measurement	2^nd measurement
Facial expression	0.863	0.884	0.8304 [CI: 0.8044–0.8553]	0.8539 [CI: 0.8272–0.8782]
Cry	0.809	0.824	0.7359 [CI: 0.7157–0.7553]	0.7758 [CI: 0.7571–0.7942]
Breathing pattern	0.312	0.372	0.2451 [CI: 0.2074–0.2821]	0.2826 [CI: 0.2447–0.3220]
Arms	0.658	0.772	0.5780 [CI: 0.5430–0.6121]	0.7140 [CI: 0.6840–0.7430]
Legs	0.677	0.738	0.5587 [CI 0.5241–0.5933]	0.6519 [CI: 0.6208–0.6839]
State of arousal	0.854	0.856	0.8060 [CI: 0.7784–0.8315]	0.8199 CI: 0.7927–0.8459]