Table 2.
Proportion of children in each diagnostic category by gender
| Categoriesa | Hyperactivity | Emotion | Conduct | Peer | Prosocial | Total difficulties | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | |||||||
| Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | |
| Close to Average | 78 (62.4) | 42 (70) | 63 (72.4) | 42 (72.4) | 63 (63) | 28 (59.5) | 48 (64) | 28 (71.8) | 96 (70.1) | 59 (81.9) | 98 (77.2) | 57 (87.7) |
| Slightly high | 28 (22.4) | 13 (21.7) | 9 (10.3) | 8 (13.8) | 9 (9) | 11 (23.4) | 14 (18.7) | 8 (20.5) | 17 (12.4) | 7 (9.7) | 16 (12.6) | 2 (3.1) |
| High | 9 (7.2) | 2 (3.3) | 11 (12.6) | 6 (10.3) | 11 (11) | 6 (12.8) | 9 (12) | 0 (0) | 14 (10.2) | 3 (4.2) | 6 (4.7) | 3 (4.6) |
| Very high | 10 (8) | 3 (5) | 4 (4.7) | 2 (3.5) | 4 (4) | 2 (4.3) | 4 (5.3) | 3 (7.7) | 10 (7.3) | 3 (4.2) | 7 (5.5) | 3 (4.6) |
| Total | 125 (100) | 60 (100) | 87 (100) | 58 (100) | 87 (100) | 47 (100) | 75 (100) | 39 (100) | 141 (100) | 74 (100) | 127 (100) | 65 (100) |
a
Categories for number of problems listed for each SDQ domain. This fourfold classification is created from data for a UK community sample {Meltzer, 2000}. Categories were created so that 80% of the population fall into the “close to average” category, 10% in to the “high” category with 5% falling into each of the “high” and “very high” categories {http://www.sdqinfo.org/py/sdqinfo/b3.py?language=Englishqz(UK)}.