Strengths & Difficulties Questionnaire

Title

Topics Covered

Social-emotional Development

Validated

Yes

Validation Notes

Sensitivity = 63-94%, Specificity = 88-96%

Target Population

Child

Parent Completion Time

About 10 min

Scoring Method

Numerical value of strengths and difficulties

Scoring Time

Less than 5 min

Cost

Varies

Literacy Level

N/A

Key Reference Link

["http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1475-3588.2007.00461.x/full", "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2919684/"]

Limitations

May be considered too brief; further study is needed in pre-school aged children

AAP Publication References

"Promoting Optimal Development: Screening for Behavioral and Emotional Problems (2015) http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2015/01/20/peds.2014-3716"

Number of Items

Language

Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Azeri, Basque, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chichewa, Chinese, Chinese (Simplified), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch , English (Austral), English, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French , Gaelic, Gallego, Georgian, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Gujarati , Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian , Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Mongolian , Nepali, Norwegian (Bokmal), Norwegian (Nynorsk), Pashto, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sami, Serbian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Spanish, Spanish (Rio de la Plata), Swahili, Swedish , Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu