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. 2025 Oct 6;16:1703161. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1703161

Correction: Identification of preschoolers with special educational needs: comparing the discriminative validity of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires (SDQ) and the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) across different informants in Hong Kong

Terry Tin-Yau Wong 1,*, Jacqueline Wai-Yan Tang 1,2, Pokky Poi-Ki Choi 1,2, Terence Siu-Chung Leung 1
PMCID: PMC12537005  PMID: 41122280

There was a mistake in Table 6 as published. The T score column was missing. The corrected Table 6 appears below.

Table 6.

Cutoff scores for SDQ-T total difficulties score.

Age Percentile Raw score T score Sensitivity Specificity PPV NPV Overall acc.
3 90th percentile ≥19 64 0.32 0.87 0.35 0.85 0.77
85th percentile ≥16 59 0.47 0.85 0.41 0.88 0.78
Suggested ≥13 54 0.68 0.69 0.33 0.91 0.69
4 90th percentile ≥20 64 0.33 0.90 0.33 0.90 0.82
85th percentile ≥18 61 0.47 0.83 0.30 0.91 0.78
Suggested ≥14 55 0.80 0.73 0.32 0.96 0.74
5 90th percentile ≥17 65 0.20 0.90 0.40 0.76 0.72
85th percentile ≥13 58 0.43 0.81 0.45 0.80 0.72
Suggested ≥11 54 0.73 0.72 0.48 0.89 0.72

The original version of this article has been updated.

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