Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief questionnaire for assessing the psychosocial adjustment of children and adolescents. Versions are available for parents and teachers of 4- to 16-year-olds, and a nearly identical version can be completed independently by 11- to 16-years olds. The SDQ differs from related instruments in that it is very short, with 25 items that are divided into five scales: emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity-inattention, peer problems and prosocial behavior.

Within L-CID, all items and subscales were used, with the exception of the Covid-19 waves, in which only 15 items were used.

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Waves
  • Early Childhood Cohort

  • ECC - T1
  •   P1C P2C
    36 months - 5.0 years   From 2014-06-20 to 2015-12-08

  • ECC - T2
  •   P1C P2C
    4.0 - 6.0 years   From 2015-08-27 to 2016-10-21

  • ECC - T3
  •   P1C P2C
    5.0 - 7.0 years   From 2016-08-09 to 2017-11-07

  • ECC - T4
  •   P1C P2C
    6.0 - 8.0 years   From 2017-08-30 to 2018-09-28

  • ECC - T5
  •   P1C P2C
    7.0 - 9.0 years   From 2019-02-06 to 2019-10-19

  • ECC - T6
  •   P1C P2C
    8.0 - 10.0 years   From 2019-08-29 to 2020-12-23

  • ECC - T6-Covid
  •   P1C P2C
    8.0 - 10.0 years   From 2020-04-23 to 2020-05-10

  • Middle Childhood Cohort

  • MCC - T1
  •   P1C P2C
    7.0 - 9.0 years   From 2015-06-16 to 2016-08-27

  • MCC - T2
  •   P1C P2C
    8.0 - 10.0 years   From 2016-08-21 to 2018-01-24

  • MCC - T3
  •   P1C P2C
    9.0 - 11.0 years   From 2017-08-27 to 2018-09-30

  • MCC - T4
  •   P1C P2C
    10.0 - 12.0 years   From 2019-01-30 to 2019-10-24

  • MCC - T5
  •   P1C P2C CC
    11.0 - 13.0 years   From 2019-11-04 to 2021-04-28

  • MCC - T5-Covid
  •   P1C P2C
    11.0 - 13.0 years   From 2020-04-29 to 2020-05-10

  • MCC - T6
  •   P1C P2C CC
    12.0 - 14.0 years   From 2021-06-13 to 2021-10-26

  • MCC - T7
  •   CC
    14.0 - 15.0 years   From 2023-04-01 to 2023-10-30

    Mode of collection SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Analysis unit Individual
    Instrument name Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
    Measure name Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)
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