eprintid: 10049098 rev_number: 41 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/04/90/98 datestamp: 2018-05-23 16:35:07 lastmod: 2021-12-27 01:51:58 status_changed: 2018-10-30 18:00:42 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Patalay, P creators_name: Hayes, D creators_name: Wolpert, M title: Assessing the readability of the self-reported Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: C07 divisions: D05 divisions: F66 divisions: D14 divisions: GA3 divisions: G17 note: 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. 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. date: 2018-03 date_type: published official_url: https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2017.13 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1557702 doi: 10.1192/bjo.2017.13 lyricists_name: Hayes, Daniel lyricists_name: Patalay, Praveetha lyricists_name: Wolpert, Miranda lyricists_id: DPHAY31 lyricists_id: PATAL55 lyricists_id: MWOLP09 actors_name: Stacey, Thomas actors_id: TSSTA20 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: BJPsych Open volume: 4 number: 2 pagerange: 55-57 citation: Patalay, P; Hayes, D; Wolpert, M; (2018) Assessing the readability of the self-reported Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. BJPsych Open , 4 (2) pp. 55-57. 10.1192/bjo.2017.13 <https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2017.13>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10049098/1/Assessing%20the%20readability%20of%20the%20self-reported%20Strengths%20and%20Difficulties%20Questionnaire.pdf