Brief SDQ Essay

Children were classified into four groups, those with: only high scores on the brief SDQ, only serious overall difficulties, both high scores on the brief SDQ and serious overall difficulties, and neither high scores on brief SDQ nor serious overall difficulties. Children’s characteristics, conditions, and service use in these four groups were compared. Data from the 2001–2007 National Health Interview Survey identified the emotional and behavioural problems, characteristics, conditions, and service use of children aged 4–17 years. Approximately 7% of children had either high scores on the brief sdq or serious overall difficulties, with 2% having only high scores on the brief SDQ, 3% having only serious overall difficulties, and 2% having both …show more content…
According to common behaviour problems indicates three fourth of the children were found engaged in lying, stealing, truancy and jealousy and 28.78 percent children were restless, disobedience and had poor attention. Specific learning disability means a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell or to do mathematical calculations. The study indicates 17.59 per cent children had learning problems and less than one fourth (12.96%) children were slow learners who needed guidance and assistance by professionals for improving learning skills. The study indicates that majority of children had improvement in academics (51.85%) as well as in behaviour (41.66%). This indicates that there was a need of counselling for children as well for parents for preventing learning and behavioural problems at early