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Comparison Of Urdu Version Of Strengths And Difficulties Questionnaire (Sdq) And The Child Behaviour Check List (Cbcl) Amongst Primary School Children In Karachi, Ehsan Ullah Syed, Sajida Abdul Hussein, Syed Iqbal Azam, Abdul Ghani Khan
Comparison Of Urdu Version Of Strengths And Difficulties Questionnaire (Sdq) And The Child Behaviour Check List (Cbcl) Amongst Primary School Children In Karachi, Ehsan Ullah Syed, Sajida Abdul Hussein, Syed Iqbal Azam, Abdul Ghani Khan
Department of Psychiatry
OBJECTIVE: To compare CBCL (Child Behaviour Check Llist) Urdu, with the validated Urdu version of Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) used as "gold standard" among school children in Karachi, Pakistan, and to develop local cutoffs for CBCL using SDQ as a gold standard.
STUDY DESIGN: A cross-sectional study.
PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY: Schools of Karachi metropolitan area from January to December 2006.
METHODOLOGY: The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and Child Behaviour Check List (CBCL) was completed by parents of 5-11 years old primary school children in Karachi. Appropriate cutoff points for total problem, internalizing and externalizing scales were …