Chinese translation of strengths and difficulties questionnaire requires urgent review before field trials for validity and reliability.

ABSTRACT:

Unlabelled

Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief behavioural screening questionnaire for children and teenagers aged 3 to 16 years. It is available in 66 languages, and gaining more popularity world wide. Chinese translation of SDQ is available and has been used in clinical practice and research. We undertook the exercise to back-translate the current Chinese translation and it showed a number of differences compared to the original English SDQ. The differences and concerns include: (1) the flow and grammar of Chinese translation as well as wrongly written Chinese characters; (2) translated words that have deviated from the original meaning; (3) significant numbers of wording that are somewhat different from the original English version; (4) addition of auxiliar

SUBMITTER: Toh TH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2533285 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature