@article{discovery10049098,
           title = {Assessing the readability of the self-reported Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire},
         journal = {BJPsych Open},
            year = {2018},
            note = {Copyright {\copyright} The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2018. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create a derivative work.},
           pages = {55--57},
          volume = {4},
          number = {2},
           month = {March},
        abstract = {The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is one of the most widely used measures in child and adolescent mental health in clinical practice, community-based screening and research. Assessing the readability of such questionnaires is important as young people may not comprehend items above their reading ability when self-reporting. Analyses of readability in the present study indicate that the self-report SDQ might not be suitable for young people with a reading age below 13-14 years and highlight differences in readability between subscales. The findings suggest a need for caution in using the SDQ as a self-report measure for children below the age of 13, and highlight considerations of readability in measure development, selection and interpretation.},
             url = {https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2017.13},
          author = {Patalay, P and Hayes, D and Wolpert, M}
}