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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jan 21.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Sch. 2023 Jan 21;60(7):2320–2341. doi: 10.1002/pits.22856

Table 5.

Area under the curve statistics for BASC-2-BESS and SDQ scores by DISC results and school level, Project to Learn About Youth-Mental Health.

School Level BASC-2-BESS
Total
SDQ
Total
SDQ
Emotion
SDQ
Conduct
SDQ
Hyper
SDQ
Peer
SDQ
Prosocial
SDQ
Impact

Any disorder All students 0.691 0.694 0.574 0.664 0.695 0.614 0.616 0.671
Elementary 0.716 0.718 0.581 0.673 0.719 0.640 0.626 0.681
Middle 0.635 0.672 0.609 0.628 0.671 0.582 0.620 0.669
High 0.653 0.603 0.533 0.662 0.600 0.560 0.608 0.617
Any internalizing disorder All students 0.585 0.588 0.571 0.575 0.547 0.581 0.568 0.606
Elementary 0.586 0.587 0.574 0.571 0.551 0.568 0.548 0.608
Middle 0.532 0.564 0.588 0.455 0.522 0.554 0.581 0.615
High 0.642 0.617 0.537 0.634 0.566 0.638 0.600 0.624
Any externalizing disorder All students 0.728 0.733 0.575 0.697 0.749 0.629 0.626 0.701
Elementary 0.748 0.752 0.578 0.701 0.758 0.661 0.639 0.694
Middle 0.706 0.738 0.637 0.684 0.751 0.628 0.645 0.742
High 0.670 0.591 0.535 0.671 0.637 0.513 0.625 0.627

BASC-2-BESS = Behavior Assessment System for Children-2 Behavioral and Emotional Screening System; SDQ = Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire

The Florida site did not include the SDQ impact questions in the screening phase.