I am conducting research which involves measuring change over time in SDQ scores (parent/teacher/child) in children aged 7-11 years who are identified as at-risk of SEMH difficulties due to various demographic factors including poverty, maternal education and mental health history, persisting behaviour difficulties at school etc
I am wondering if there is any information out there about how much typically developing childrens (not at-risk) SDQ scores are likely to change over time, or if they remain relatively consistent say over the course of a year or 3 years or so... ? As comparison? Does anybody know of any cohort data I might look at or any studies already published with this type of information?
Thank you
Jenna
SDQ is one of the measures used in most cohort studies in Western European countries (e.g., Millennium Cohort Study, Growing up in Scotland, Growing up in Ireland, Bella). If you check individually the website for each of these cohort studies, you might find national specific trajectories. Some of these have been written up as scientific papers. See for example this one (Becker et al., 2014 Article Erratum to: Six years ahead: a longitudinal analysis regardi...
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