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- Malmberg, Mikael, et al.
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Validity of the Swedish version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ-Swe)
- 2003
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Ingår i: Nordic Journal of Psychiatry. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0803-9488 .- 1502-4725. ; 57:5, s. 357-63
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is an internationally widely used, brief screening instrument for mental health problems in children and teenagers. The SDQ probes behaviours and psychological attributes reflecting the child's difficulties as well as strengths, and targets hyperactivity/inattention, emotional symptoms, conduct problems, peer problems and prosocial behaviour. Also, the instrument taps the impact aspect, i.e. whether the child is judged to suffer from emotional or behavioural problems severe enough to cause distress or social impairment. Studies of the original English SDQ, as well as of translations into several other languages, attest to a compelling usefulness and validity of the instrument. In this investigation, the adequacy of the Swedish adaptation of the SDQ (SDQ-Swe) was tested in comparisons between parent reports on 5-15-year-old children drawn from a community sample (n=263) and from a child psychiatric sample (n=230). Results showed that the instrument differentiated well between the community and the psychiatric samples, the latter displaying more symptoms, fewer strengths and more social impairment. Moreover, ROC analyses showed satisfactory sensitivity and specificity of the principal scales of the SDQ-Swe at proposed cut-offs. Hence, results showed adequate validity of the SDQ-Swe, suggesting that this new instrument, an instrument in tune with the ideas of contemporary child psychiatry and psychology, is a useful tool for mental health screening in children and adolescents.
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- Obel, C, et al.
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The strengths and difficulties questionnaire in the Nordic countries
- 2004
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Ingår i: European Child Adolescent Psychiatry. ; 13:suppl 2, s. 1132-9
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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.
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- Smedje, Hans
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Nighttime sleep and daytime behavior in children : Studies based on parents' perseptions of five to eight year old children
- 2000
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to survey sleep-wake characteristics and their associations with other factors, especially behavioural and emotional difficulties, in children. Parents' reports showed that various sleep disturbances were fairly common phenomena among 5-6-year-olds. Comparisons with Swedish studies performed 30 years earlier suggest slightly shorter sleep duration, and higher prevalence of night terrors among contemporary children. Disturbed sleep was correlated to several factors, e.g. health problems and life events. Prospective reports of specified sleep disturbances displayed persistence rates between 30% and 60% over the course of one year. Recurring nightmares were associated with behavioural and emotional difficulties, and also with other distress. Moreover, 36% of children with global reports of current sleep problems also had behaviour problems. Certain sleep disturbances tended to be specifically related to particular types of behavioural difficulties. Previous consultations for sleep problems, reported in 7% of the children, were associated with more current sleep disturbances. A need to remedy current sleep problems was confirmed in one percent of the 5-6-year-olds. Sleeping difficulties attributed to parenthood, in 22% of the mothers and 12% of the fathers, coincided with more sleep disturbances in their 5-6-year-olds. A new behavioural screening form, The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire was translated from English and used in studies of associations between sleep and daytime behaviour in children. The Swedish SDQ displayed adequate psychometric properties.Studies show that in latency children sleep disturbances are common, often persistent and frequently associated with behavioural difficulties; however, they are not necessarily indicated by obvious daytime somnolence. Findings also suggest that parents sometimes hesitate to express a need to remedy sleep problems in children. Hence, health care professionals, e.g. in child psychiatry and paediatrics need to assume an active attitude towards the exploration and treatment of sleep problems in 5-8-year-old children.
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