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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2007 Nov 21.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Serv. 2007 Oct;58(10):1303–1310. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.58.10.1303

Table 5.

Banded scores on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnairea in regard to custodial grandchildren and results for the normative sample of the 2001 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS)b

Low difficulties
Medium difficulties
High difficulties
Custodial
NHIS
Custodial
NHIS
Custodial
NHIS
SDQ subscale Range % sample Range % sample Range % sample Range % sample Range % sample Range % sample
Total difficulties 0–19 80.2 0–11 82 20–23 10.3 12–15 9 24–35 9.5 16–40 9
Emotional symptoms 0–5 85.0 0–3 86 6 6.7 4 6 7–10 8.3 5–10 8
Conduct problems 0–4 79.3 0–2 81 5 6.6 3 9 6–10 14.1 4–10 10
Hyperactivity or inattention 0–7 80.2 0–5 85 8 6.8 6 6 9–10 13.0 7–10 9
Peer problems 0–4 83.2 0–2 80 5 6.4 3 10 6–10 10.4 4–10 10
Prosocial behavior 6–10 82.8 8–10 79 5 7.1 6–7 14 0–4 10.1 0–5 7
a

In some instances the range consisted of a single score.

b

U.S. children between ages four and 17 years formed the normative sample. Data source: 2001 National Health Interview Study as reported in Bourdon and colleagues (35).