Repeated primary care consultations for non-specific physical symptoms in children in UK: a cohort study

BMC Primary Care

Table 4 Risk for repeated consultations for specific NSPS in children, by history of maternal consultation for the same specific NSPS

	Children with repeated consultations for the same type of NSPS in their mothers	Children without repeated consultations for the same type of NSPS in their mothers	Crude RR (95% CIs)	P -value	Adjusted RR (95% CIs)	P -value
Maternal visits for painful NSPS
No	116	443	1		1
Yes	124	276	1.49 (1.16, 1.92)	0.002	1.53^a (1.18, 1.97)	0.001
Maternal visits for not-painful NSPS
No	66	392	1		1
Yes	23	100	1.30 (0.81, 2.09)	0.282	1.18^b (0.72, 1.92)	0.511
Maternal visits for gastrointestinal NSPS
No	81	499	1		1
Yes	29	92	1.72 (1.12, 2.62)	0.013	1.72^c (1.12, 2.62)	0.013
Maternal visits for musculoskeletal NSPS
No	48	260	1		1
Yes	33	106	1.52 (0.98, 2.37)	0.063	1.49^d (0.95, 2.30)	0.084
Maternal visits for neurological NSPS
No	23	175	1		1
Yes	11	34	2.10 (1.03, 4.32)	0.042	2.10^e (1.03, 4.32)	0.042

NSPS - Non-specific physical symptoms; RR - Relative risk; CI - Confidence intervals; ^aAdjusted for child and maternal age groups; ^bAdjusted for maternal history for anxiety/depression; ^cOnly maternal visits for gastrointestinal NSPS was retained in the final model; ^dAdjusted for child age group; ^eOnly maternal visits for neurological NSPS was retained in the final model.

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