Children Mental Health Problems: Parent Report Form of Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire
-
Mehdi Tehranidoost
,
Javad Mahmoudi-Gharaei
,
Ali Alavi
,
Mohammad Reza Mohammadi
,
Zahra Shahrivar
,
Soheil Saadat
Abstract
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 the Persian version of SDQ parent-report form. The mean score in each subscale and the frequency of each symptom domains based on the Goodman's cutoff points, were determined.
Results: The prevalence of symptom domain was relatively high. Among the studied children, 25.8% had total score equal to 17 or more. The most frequent problem domain was conduct. The studied boys had statistically significant higher mean scores in hyperactivity and peer problem subscales.
Conclusion: Frequency of all the problem symptom domains was high in children from different urban areas of Tehran. Further evaluation for the reason of such a high frequency is necessary.
Nikapota AD. Child psychiatry in developing countries. Br J Psychiatry 1991; 158: 743-751.
Simpson GA, Bloom B, Cohen RA, Blumberg S, Bourdon KH. U.S. children with emotional and behavioral difficulties: data from the 2001, 2002, and 2003 National Health Interview Surveys. Adv Data 2005: 1-13.
Smit F, Cuijpers P, Oostenbrink J, Batelaan N, de Graaf R, Beekman A. Costs of nine common mental disorders: implications for curative and preventive psychiatry. J Ment Health Policy Econ 2006; 9: 193-200.
Offord DR, Boyle MH, Fleming JE, Blum HM, Grant NI. Ontario Child Health Study. Summary of selected results. Can J Psychiatry 1989; 34: 483-491.
Davies S, Heyman I, Goodman R. A population survey of mental health problems in children with epilepsy. Dev Med Child Neurol 2003; 45: 292-295.
Suzuki M, Morita H, Kamoshita S. [Epidemiological survey of psychiatric disorders in Japanese school children. Part III: Prevalence of psychiatric disorders in junior high school children]. Nippon Koshu Eisei Zasshi 1990; 37: 991-1000.
Abou-Saleh MT, Ghubash R, Daradkeh TK. A1 Ain Community Psychiatric Survey. I. Prevalence and socio-demographic correlates. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 2001; 36: 20-28.
Giel R, de Arango MV, Climent CE, Harding TW, Ibrahim HH, Ladrido-Ignacio L, et al. Childhood mental disorders in primary health care: results of observations in four developing countries. A report from the WHO collaborative Study on Strategies for Extending Mental Health Care. Pediatrics 1981; 68: 677-683.
Ronning JA, Handegaard BH, Sourander A, Morch WT. The Strengths and Difficulties Self- Report Questionnaire as a screening instrument in Norwegian community samples. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2004; 13: 73-82.
Bettge S, Ravens-Sieberer U, Wietzker A, Holling H. [Methodological coomparison between the Child Behavior Checklist and the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires]. Gesundheitswesen 2002; 64 Suppl 1: S119- 124.
Mohammadi MR, Davidian H, Noorbala AA, Malekafzali H, Naghavi HR, Pouretemad HR, et al. An epidemiological survey of psychiatric disorders in Iran. Clin Pract Epidemol Ment Health 2005; 1: 16.
Cury CR, Golfeto JH. Strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ): a study of school children in Ribeirao Preto. Rev Bras Psiquiatr 2003; 25: 139-145.
Goodman R, Meltzer H, Bailey V. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: a pilot study on the validity of the self-report version. Int Rev Psychiatry 2003; 15: 173-177.
Kashala E, Elgen I, Sommerfelt K, Tylleskar T. Teacher ratings of mental health among school children in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2005; 14: 208-215.
Muris P, Meesters C, van den Berg F. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)--further evidence for its reliability and validity in a community sample of Dutch children and adolescents. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2003; 12: 1-8.
Van Roy B, Groholt B, Heyerdahl S, Clench- Aas J. Self-reported strengths and difficulties in a large Norwegian population 10-19 years : age and gender specific results of the extended SDQ-questionnaire. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2006; 15: 189-198.
Ghanizadeh A, Izadpanah A. Scale Validation of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in Iranian Children. Iran J Psychiatry 2007; 2: 65-71.
Tehrani-Doost M, Shahrivar Z, Pakbaz B, Rezaie A, Ahmadi F. [Validity of Persian Version of Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)]. Advances in cognitive science 2007; 8: 33-39.
Goodman R. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: a research note. J Child Psychol Psychiatry 1997; 38: 581-586.
Woerner W, Becker A, Rothenberger A. Normative data and scale properties of the German parent SDQ. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2004; 13 Suppl 2: II3-10.
Obel C, Heiervang E, Rodriguez A, Heyerdahl S, Smedje H, Sourander A, et al. The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in the Nordic countries. Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2004; 13 Suppl 2: II32-39.
| Files | ||
| Issue | Vol 3 No 1 (2008) | |
| Section | Articles | |
| Keywords | ||
| The Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) Children psychopathology creening behavioral problem | ||
| Rights and permissions | |
|
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. |
