Måleegenskaper ved den norske versjonen av Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, lærerrapport (SDQ-T)

Authors

Hege Kornør Regionsenter for barn og unges psykiske helse Øst og Sør https://orcid.org/0009-0007-6256-7124
Sonja Heyerdahl Regionsenter for barn og unges psykiske helse Øst og Sør

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Generell psykisk helse, Barn i førskolealder, Barn i skolealder, Ungdom

Abstract

Description: The Strenghts and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a set of parent-, teacher- and youth-reported questionnaires originally published in English by Robert Goodman in 1997. The Norwegian versions were published in 1999, based on a translation and back-translation by Einar Heiervang and colleagues. Robert Goodman holds the copyright. The teacher version (SDQ-T) contains 25 items organized in five subscales. It is a teacher report form to assess mental health, peer relations and prosocial behavior in children aged 4-17 years. Completion takes a few minutes. Clinicians and teachers can administrate and interpret the SDQ-T.
Literature search: Our systematic searches for psychometric evidence for the Norwegian SDQ-T version identified 252 references, of which 22 publications from nine studies were included. Eighteen publications were reports from large population-based studies in Bergen, Trondheim, Bodø, Østfold and the Oslo area.
Psychometrics: The large population-based studies contributed with regional norm data for 4 year-olds and 7-9 year-olds. Researchers assessed the SDQ-T factor structure in two studies, and three studies reported diagnostic accuracy data. Group comparisons between subgroups and controls also addressed the instrument’s validity, especially data for various diagnostic groups. We identified measures of internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) from seven studies.
Conclusion: The SDQ-T has regional norms, but only for children below the age of nine, and there is a lack of national data. Expected group differences and confirmatory factor analyses support the construct validity of the instrument. The scales have adequate to good internal consistencies. The ability to detect children with a psychiatric diagnosis seems to be quite good. Still, the diagnostic accuracy is not sufficiently good to recommend the SDQ-T as a universal screening instrument. The Norwegian version of the SDQ-T may be appropriate for screening for psychiatric diagnoses in selected populations with high risk of mental health problems.

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2014-10-15

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Kornør, H., & Heyerdahl, S. (2014). Måleegenskaper ved den norske versjonen av Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, lærerrapport (SDQ-T). PsykTestBarn, 4(2), 1–15. https://doi.org/10.21337/0036