TY  - JOUR
AV  - public
EP  - 57
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2017.13
A1  - Patalay, P
A1  - Hayes, D
A1  - Wolpert, M
N2  - 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.
VL  - 4
JF  - BJPsych Open
SP  - 55
N1  - 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.
ID  - discovery10049098
Y1  - 2018/03//
IS  - 2
TI  - Assessing the readability of the self-reported Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
ER  -