Finnish norms for young children on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire

Borg, Anne-Mari; Kaukonen, Pälvi; Joukamaa, Matti; Tamminen, Tuula

doi:10.3109/08039488.2013.853833

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“…Preschool teachers rated the children lower than parents, which is contrary to previous findings from other Nordic countries, such as Denmark and Finland, where scores were quite similar for parents and teachers (Borg et al , ; Elberling, Linneberg, Olsen, Goodman & Skovgaard, ; Niclasen et al , ). However, there are also studies suggesting that teachers report lower levels of behavior and emotional problems compared to parents (Verhulst & Akkerhuis, ; Winsler & Wallace, ).…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Therefore, we chose to provide the reader with both combined norms and separately for girls and boys. Internationally, the SDQ cut-offs are higher than or similar to the ones provided in the present study (Borg et al, 2014;Mellor, 2005;Tobia & Marzocchi, 2018). Comparing our cut-offs with previous Swedish norms, results harmonize well for parents' ratings (Ghaderi et al, 2014), with minor differences on subscale level for some age groups.…”

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confidence: 84%

“…Although the SDQ is commonly used as a screening and research tool in different countries and exists in numerous language versions, normative data are only available from a limited number of countries, ages and informants (see http://www.sdqinfo.org). Previous studies on the psychometric properties of the SDQ have shown that norms vary across cultural settings (Aiko & Yoko, ; Borg, Kaukonen, Joukamaa & Tamminen, ; Bourdon, Goodman, Rae, Simpson & Koretz, ; Kremer et al , ; Lai et al , ; Maurice‐Stam et al , ; Niclasen, Teasdale, Andersen, Skovgaard, Elberling & Obel, ; Tobia & Marzocchi, ; Woerner, Becker & Rothenberger, ). Hence, to use the SDQ in research for cross‐country comparisons of children’s mental health problems or in paediatric care as an instrument to identify children with mental health problems, population‐specific norms and percentile cut‐off values are needed (Goodman et al , ).…”

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Swedish norms for the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for children 3–5 years rated by parents and preschool teachers

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The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a widespread tool for assessing behavior problems in children and adolescents. Despite being investigated thoroughly concerning both validity and reliability, peer reviewed studies that provide norms, especially for preschool children, are lacking. This paper provides Swedish norms using data from a large community sample of children aged 3–5, based on mothers’, fathers’, and preschool teacher’s ratings. Preschool teachers’ ratings were generally lower than parents’ ratings, which contradicts some previous studies. Differences between girls and boys were found, suggesting that boys display higher levels of behavior problems. Lower parental education and country of origin outside of Sweden were also associated with more difficulties. Cut‐offs are presented for each age group, gender and rater category. Population‐specific norms and percentile cut‐offs provided in this study facilitate identifying children in need of interventions in paediatric care and enable cross‐country comparisons of children’s mental health problems.

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Swedish norms for the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for children 3–5 years rated by parents and preschool teachers

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“…The algorithms are calculated using a fixed combination of scores, derived from a British normative sample [25]. Finnish norms for SDQ suggests a cut-off 2–3 points lower than that derived from the British norms [38], illustrating that the UK multi-informant algorithms are based on cut-offs that may not fit populations in other countries. Furthermore, when the algorithms were examined with a British clinical sample [12], the algorithms were modified by increasing the threshold for identifying emotional disorders.…”

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Screening Foster Children for Mental Disorders: Properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire

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BackgroundHigh prevalence of mental disorders among foster children highlight the need to examine the mental health of children placed out of home. We examined the properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in screening school-aged foster children for mental disorders.MethodsFoster parents and teachers of 279 foster children completed the SDQ and the diagnostic interview Developmental and Well-Being Assessment (DAWBA). Using the diagnoses derived from the DAWBA as the standard, we examined the performance of the SDQ scales as dimensional measures of mental health problems using receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses. Recommended cut-off scores were derived from ROC coordinates. The SDQ predictive algorithms were also examined.ResultsROC analyses supported the screening properties of the SDQ Total difficulties and Impact scores (AUC = 0.80–0.83). Logistic regression analyses showed that the prevalence of mental disorders increased linearly with higher SDQ Total difficulties scores (X2 = 121.47, df = 13, p<.001) and Impact scores (X2 = 69.93, df = 6, p<.001). Our results indicated that there is an additive value of combining the scores from the Total difficulties and Impact scales, where scores above cut-off on any of the two scales predicted disorders with high sensitivity (89.1%), but moderate specificity (62.1%). Scores above cut-off on both scales yielded somewhat lower sensitivity (73.4%), but higher specificity (81.1%). The SDQ multi-informant algorithm showed low discriminative ability for the main diagnostic categories, with an exception being the SDQ Conduct subscale, which accurately predicted the absence of behavioural disorders (LHR− = 0.00).ConclusionsThe results support the use of the SDQ Total difficulties and Impact scales when screening foster children for mental health problems. Cut-off values for both scales are suggested. The SDQ multi-informant algorithms are not recommended for mental health screening of foster children in Norway.

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“…The SDQ is widely used as a screening and research tool and in clinical assessments and to evaluate outcome. It has been translated into more than 60 languages and has also been validated in Finland (25,26).…”

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Bullying and victimisation are common in four‐year‐old children and are associated with somatic symptoms and conduct and peer problems

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Finnish norms for young children on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire

Cited by 28 publications

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Swedish norms for the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for children 3–5 years rated by parents and preschool teachers

Swedish norms for the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for children 3–5 years rated by parents and preschool teachers

Screening Foster Children for Mental Disorders: Properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire

Bullying and victimisation are common in four‐year‐old children and are associated with somatic symptoms and conduct and peer problems

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