Table 1.

SDQ domain score four-band categorisation

Teacher complete	Close to average	Slightly raised/lowered	High/low	Very high/very low
Total difficulties score	0–11	12–15	16–18	19–40
Emotional problems score	0–3	4	5	6–10
Conduct problems score	0–2	3	4	5–10
Hyperactivity score	0–5	6–7	8	9–10
Peer problems score	0–2	3–4	5	6–10
Prosocial score	6–10	5	4	0–3

From http://www.sdqinfo.org/py/sdqinfo/b3.py?language=Englishqz(UK) scoring instructions for SDQs for 4- to 17-year-olds