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Table 2 Attacks status during prior 2 weeks during stressful or less stressful event

From: PFAPA flares observed during COVID outbreak: can emotional stress trigger PFAPA attacks? A multicenter cohort study

Characteristic

First call

(May 2020)

Second call (August 2020)

p-value

Paediatric emotional distress score (PEDS)9, mean (±SD)

35.6 (±8.1)

32.1 (±7.7)

0.047*a

Any attacks during last 2 week, n (%)

41 (39.8)

24 (24.2)

0.017*b

Number of attacks

  

0.04*b

One, n (%)

27 (25.5)

19 (17.9)

 

Two, n (%)

14 (13.2)

5 (4.7)

 
  1. * Statistically significant results
  2. aPaired-Samples t-test; bΧ2 test