The strengths and difficulties questionnaire in the Nordic countries

Carsten Obel; Einar Heiervang; Alina Rodriguez; Sonja Heyerdahl; Hans Smedje; André Sourander; Olafur O Gudmundsson; Jocelyne Clench-Aas; Else Christensen; Frode Heian; Kristin S Mathiesen; Pall Magnusson; Urdur Njardvik; Merja Koskelainen; John A Rønning; Kjell Morten Stormark; Jørn Olsen

doi:10.1007/s00787-004-2006-2

The strengths and difficulties questionnaire in the Nordic countries

Carsten Obel, Einar Heiervang, Alina Rodriguez, Sonja Heyerdahl, Hans Smedje, André Sourander, Olafur O Gudmundsson, Jocelyne Clench-Aas, Else Christensen, Frode Heian, Kristin S Mathiesen, Pall Magnusson, Urdur Njardvik, Merja Koskelainen, John A Rønning, Kjell Morten Stormark, Jørn Olsen

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BACKGROUND: The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) has been translated into the different Nordic languages between 1996 and 2003. During the past few years, SDQs have been completed for nearly 100,000 children and adolescents in population-based studies as well as in clinical samples. The largest studies have been performed in Norway and Denmark, and in these countries the diagnostic interview DAWBA has also been used in conjunction with the SDQ. AIMS: In addition to a brief overview of past and ongoing SDQ work in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland, we present scale means and standard deviations from selected community studies with comparable age groups, including parental reports for 7, 9 and 11 year-old children and self-reports of 13 and 15 year-olds. CONCLUSIONS: The descriptive statistics suggest that the distributions of SDQ scores are very similar across the Nordic countries. Further collaborative efforts in establishing norms and evaluating the validity of the SDQ as a screening instrument are encouraged.

Original language	English
Journal	European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-004-2006-2
Publication status	Published - 1 Jun 2004

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Adolescent
Child
Culture
Faculty
Female
Humans
Language
Male
Mental Disorders
Observer Variation
Parents
Questionnaires
Reproducibility of Results
Scandinavia

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Obel, C., Heiervang, E., Rodriguez, A., Heyerdahl, S., Smedje, H., Sourander, A., Gudmundsson, O. O., Clench-Aas, J., Christensen, E., Heian, F., Mathiesen, K. S., Magnusson, P., Njardvik, U., Koskelainen, M., Rønning, J. A., Stormark, K. M., & Olsen, J. (2004). The strengths and difficulties questionnaire in the Nordic countries. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-004-2006-2

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The strengths and difficulties questionnaire in the Nordic countries

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