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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Aug 28.
Published in final edited form as: J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2010 Aug 19;51(10):1171–1183. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2010.02260.x

Table 2. Disorder prevalence (clinician-rated DAWBA) and parent, teacher and child SDQ scores for Indians and Whites types.

White
prevalence
Indian
prevalence
Odds ratio &
95%CI for White
vs. Indian ethnicity
Clinician-rated
DAWBA diagnosis
(13 868 White,
361 Indian)
Any mental disorder 10.0 3.7 2.97 (1.65, 5.34)***
Emotional disorder 4.1 2.3 1.86 (0.89, 3.89)
Behavioural disorder 5.3 1.4 3.98 (1.70, 9.34)**
Hyperactivity disorder 2.4 0.3 8.46 (1.18, 60.56)*
White
mean
Indian
mean
Regression
coefficient &
95%CI for White
vs. Indian ethnicity
Parent SDQ
(13 868 White,
361 Indian)
Total difficulty score 8.31 7.44 0.87 (0.13, 1.61)*
Internalising problems 3.33 3.54 −0.21 (−0.67, 0.25)
Externalising problems 4.98 3.90 1.08 (0.73, 1.43)***
Teacher SDQ
(10 775 White,
257 Indian)
Total difficulty score 6.55 5.25 1.35 (0.58, 2.11)**
Internalising problems 2.85 2.56 0.30 (−0.20, 0.80)
Externalising problems 3.70 2.69 1.05 (0.67, 1.43) ***
Child SDQ
(5776 White,
156 Indian)
Total difficulty score 10.36 9.05 1.34 (0.49, 2.19)**
Internalising problems 4.27 4.13 0.12 (−0.36, 0.59)
Externalising problems 6.08 4.92 1.22 (0.69, 1.76)***
*

p<0.05

**

p<0.01

***

p<0.001.

Odds ratios/regression coefficients generated through logistic/linear regression, adjusting for age, gender and survey year.