Table 2.
Mental health problems by gender and age in adolescents, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway 1995–97
| Boys | Girls | |||||||
| Age 13–15 | Age 16–19 | Age 13–15 | Age 16–19 | |||||
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | |
| High attention problems score | 499 | 22.7 | 580 | 27.1 | 551 | 24.5 | 614 | 29.6 |
| High conduct problems score | 964 | 43.7 | 744 | 34.9 | 673 | 29.9 | 461 | 22.2 |
| High combined anxiety/depressive symptoms score* | 295 | 13.3 | 400 | 18.9 | 566 | 25.2 | 769 | 37.6 |
* Anxiety symptoms and depressive symptoms derived from SCL-5, presented as a common variable based on all the 5 questions in SCL-5.