Ward
Levels of difficulties also varied by the ward in which the children lived. P3 children in Hillhead and Maryhill/Kelvin had the lowest levels of overall difficulties, with 5% and 5.5%, respectively, having likely difficulties overall in these areas. East centre had the highest level of difficulties, with 13.9% of children in this ward having likely difficulties, closely followed by Springburn (12.9%) and Anderston/City (12.7%).
Notes
SDQ - Goodman’ Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief behavioural screening questionnaire for children. It covers five areas: Conduct Problems, Hyperactivity/inattention, Peer Relationship Problems, Emotional Symptoms and Pro-social Behaviours. The first four of these are rated negatively (that is, they pick up difficulties in children). These can be added together to give a Total Difficulties score, which shows an indication of overall difficulties that the child is experiencing. The final area, Pro-social Behaviours, is a positively scored scale, so it shows things the child does e.g. ‘is helpful if someone is hurt or upset’. The Total Difficulties score and the sub-scale scores can be split into groups which indicate whether a child has no difficulties, possible difficulties or likely difficulties.
This analysis reports on results from Primary 3s in the academic years 2011/12 and 2012/13 combined (data collected in February/March of each academic year). For more information on the study see About the Study.
