Table 1.

Scores for refugee children, children from ethnic minorities, and indigenous white children, matched for age and sex, from the strengths and difficulties questionnaire

	Median SDQ score (range)			Wilcoxon's rank sum test
Subscale of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ)	Refugee	Ethnic minority	Indigenous white	Refugee v ethnic minority	Refugee v indigenous white
Total	9 (0-28)	7 (0-21)	6 (0-31)	3.0**	2.9**
Emotional	2 (0-10)	1 (0-9)	1 (0-8)	4.3***	3.2**
Peer	2 (0-8)	1 (0-8)	1 (0-9)	1.8	2.9**
Hyperactivity	4 (0-10)	3 (0-10)	3 (0-10)	1.6	2.1*
Conduct disorder	1 (0-8)	1 (0-8)	0 (0-9)	0.5	0.4
Prosocial	6 (0-10)	6 (0-10)	7 (0-10)	0.4	2.3*

^*P<0.05

^**P<0.01

^***P<0.001