Background: The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) measures behavioral problems among children and adolescents. Prior research in Sweden has included child self-report or parent ratings from community or population data. Objective: To provide child-reported and parent-rated SDQ norms for 11to 16-year-olds, as well as data on child–parent agreement and parental sociodemographic corre...

objective: this study was performed to evaluate the mental health status of 6 - 11 year-old children of tehran in a community-based sample using the persian version of the strength and difficulties questionnaire (sdq) parent-report. method: parents of 799 children (6 to 11 years old) were selected from 250 clusters of the entire 22 municipality areas of tehran; they responded to 25 questions of...

BACKGROUND Adolescence has been documented as the peak age of onset for mental health perturbations, clinical disorders and unsubstantiated health complaints. The present study attempted to investigate associations between multiple, recurrent subjective health complaints (SHC) with emotional/behavioural difficulties, as measured by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire scale (SDQ), among...

BACKGROUND Preschool language and neurodevelopmental problems often persist and impede learning. The aims of the current study are to assess the uptake of a new universal 30 month health visitor contact and to quantify the prevalence of language delay and social/emotional difficulties. METHODS All families of 30 month old children in four Glasgow localities were offered a visit from their hea...

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is widely used as an international standardised instrument measuring child behaviour. The primary aim of our study was to examine whether behavioral symptoms measured by SDQ were elevated among children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) relative to the rest of the population, and to examine ...

BACKGROUND The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a valuable screening tool for identifying psychosocial problems. Its performance in a multi-ethnic society, common to many paediatric health care workers, has not been investigated. Because it is important that screening instruments are valid and reliable for all ethnic groups within one society, we examined differences in the SDQ...

We investigated psychological adjustment in a preadolescent pediatric population as a function of headache diagnosis. Children from a city public education system were enrolled in this study. Parents were interviewed using validated headache questionnaires and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), which measures psychological adjustment. Crude and adjusted prevalence ratios were o...

Behavioral and emotional disorders include a wide range of behavioral patterns, ranging from externalizing to internalizing behavior disorders as well as combined behaviors that include features of both subtypes. Externalizing behaviors are actions that direct problematic energy outward and may include behaviors such as verbal and physical aggression, hyperactivity, noncompliance, and delinquen...

Here we describe a pilot Dog-Assisted Activity program that was designed to improve wellbeing and social integration in a multi-cultural elementary classroom in which some episodes of bullying had been reported. We developed a 5-encounters protocol with the aim of introducing pet dogs into the class to stimulate understanding of different types of communication and behavior, ultimately facilita...

We examined associations between objectively-measured physical activity, depressive-symptoms, and emotional behavioural difficulties in adolescents from a UK cohort. Data 4755 participants (45% male) the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents Children (ALSPAC) with activity assessed by accelerometry at age 11 was analysed. Indication depressive symptoms (Short Moods Feelings questionnaire) were obt...