Mental Health Services Use Predicted by Number of Mental Health Problems and Gender in a Total Population Study

Table 1

Problem areas and actual percentages of children scoring above the 95th percentile on parental and teacher questionnaires.

Problem area	Parent questionnaire	Teacher questionnaire	Either informant*
SDQ emotion	5.9%	5.7%	9.7%
SDQ peer problems	7.3%	4.1%	8.9%
Hyperactivity	6.4%	5.8%	9.2%
Inattention	6.5%	6.0%	9.1%
Oppositional behaviour	7.0%	5.3%	8.4%
ASSQ	5.9%	5.2%	8.4%
Language problems	6.4%	6.0%	8.6%
Tics	9.8%	6.4%	13.5%
Obsessions/compulsions	10.2%	3.5%	12.5%
Hypoactivity	—	9.3%	7.7%*
Selective mutism	—	4.1%	4.0%*
Eating problems	4.7%	—	4.7%
Sleep problems	8.5%	—	8.5%

∗This column only represents identified children with questionnaires from both informants (𝑁=6295), whereas the teacher questionnaire column represent the total population (𝑁=9152), which is the cause of differing percentages of hypoactivity and selective mutism in these two columns.