A systematic review of some reliability and validity issues regarding the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire focusing on its use in out-of-home care.

Per Martin Bergström; Siddhartha Baviskar

doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2020.1788477

A systematic review of some reliability and validity issues regarding the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire focusing on its use in out-of-home care.

Per Martin Bergström, Siddhartha Baviskar

Lund University

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Abstract

Purpose: A systematic review was conducted to analyze the inter-rater reliability, cross-informant consistency, test-retest reliability, and tem-poral stability of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), and its ability to discriminate.
Method: We searched three databases for articles about the SDQ (parent, teacher, and self-report version), used samples of children up to age 18 and reported inter-rater reliability, cross-informant relia-bility, test-retest reliability, temporal stability, specificity, sensitivity, positive predictive value (PPV), and negative predictive value (NPV).
Results: Focusing on the TDS, inter-rater, and cross-informant relia-bility showed acceptable values, but respondent types (e.g., mothers and fathers) are not interchangeable. Test-retest reliability and tem-poral stability were also acceptable, and not excessively high. Specificity and NPV were acceptable but not sensitivity and PPV.
Discussion and Conclusion: Greater transparency is needed about who the respondent is when the term “parents” is used. The SDQ is an important supplement to service-as-usual assessments by social care professionals

Translated title of the contribution	Et systematisk review af pålideligheden og validiteten af spørgeskema om styrker og vanskeligheder med særlig fokus på dens anvendelse blandt anbragte børn
Original language	English
Journal	Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work
Volume	18
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	1-31
Number of pages	31
ISSN	1543-3714
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/26408066.2020.1788477
Publication status	Published - Jan 2021

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clinical assessment methods, lab technology and radiography

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Danneskiold-Samsøe, S., Baviskar, S., Sørensen, K. M., Bergström, P. M., Madsen Sjö, N., Jacobsen, C. B., Christensen, M., Koustrup, C. & Frederiksen, A. B.
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