Table 2 Agreement of Unesp-Botucatu Pig Composite Acute Pain Scale (UPAPS) between observers of each assessment method.

From: Effects of assessment method (real-time versus video-recorded) on a validated pain-altered behavior scale used in castrated piglets

Method

Observer

Assessment

ICC

Estimate

CI

P-value

Real-time

4

87

0.92

0.89–0.94

2.1–55

Video-recorded

4

87

0.85

0.79–0.89

1.61–32

  1. ICC is intraclass correlation coefficient; the interpretation of ICC was very good 0.81–1.00; good: 0.61–0.80; moderate: 0.41–0.60; reasonable: 0.21–0.40; or poor < 0.2032.
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