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Table 2 Normative banding

From: Validation of the parent version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) to screen mental health problems among school-age children in Mongolia

 

Mongolia

UK*

Normal

Borderline

Abnormal

Normal

Borderline

Abnormal

Total difficulties score

0–16 (78.5%)

17–19 (12.0%)

20–40 (9.5%)

0–13 (82.1%)

14–16 (8.2%)

17–40 (9.8%)

Emotion subscale

0–5 (80.5%)

6 (9.8%)

7–10 (9.8%)

0–3 (80.8%)

4 (7.8%)

5–10 (12.4%)

Conduct subscale

0–2 (72.2%)

3 (15.5%)

4–10 (12.3%)

0–2 (76.4%)

3 (10.9%)

4–10 (12.7%)

Hyperactivity subscale

0–6 (81.3%)

7 (8.3%)

8–10 (10.4%)

0–5 (77.9%)

6 (7.4%)

7–10 (14.7%)

Peer relationship subscale

0–4 (83.7%)

5 (8.8%)

6–10 (7.5%)

0–2 (78.0%)

3 (10.2%)

4–10 (11.7%)

Prosocial subscale

6–10 (85.4%)

5 (8.8%)

0–4 (5.7%)

8–10 (79.5%)

7 (10.0%)

0–6 (10.6%)

  1. *Cut-off scores from UK were obtained from the SDQ official website [12].