HEALTH3.B Emotional and behavioral difficulties: Percentage of children ages 4–17 whose parent had contact with a health care provider or school staff, who were prescribed medication, or who received treatment other than medication by level of emotional and behavioral difficulty, 2005

HEALTH3.B Emotional and behavioral difficulties: Percentage of children ages 4–17 whose parent had contact^a with a health care provider or school staff, who were prescribed medication, or who received treatment other than medication by level of emotional and behavioral difficulty, 2006

	Contact with health care provider or school staff	Prescribed medication^b	Treatment^b other than medication
Level of difficulty
Definite/severe	84.0	48.8	43.5
Minor difficulties	48.5	14.2	16.8
No difficulties	3.8	0.9	0.9
^a Data for service contact and type of service or treatment for emotional or behavioral difficulties are from new service questions asked directly after the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, first used in the 2005 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). A child who had more than one service or contact was included in more than one column.
^b Prescribed medication or treatment for emotional or behavioral difficulties.
NOTE: Emotional or behavioral difficulties of children were based on parental responses to the following question on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)¹,²: “Overall, do you think that (child) has any difficulties in one or more of the following areas: emotions, concentration, behavior, or being able to get along with other people?” Response choices were: (1) no; (2) yes, minor difficulties; (3) yes, definite difficulties; and (4) yes, severe difficulties.
SOURCE: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, 2006 National Health Interview Survey.
¹ Goodman, R. (1999). The extended version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire as a guide to child psychiatric caseness and consequent burden. Journal of the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, 40, 791–799.
² Bourdon, K.H., Goodman, R., Rae, D., Simpson, G., and Koretz, D.S. (2005). The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: U.S. Normative Data and Psychometric Properties, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 44(6):557–564.

HEALTH3.B Emotional and behavioral difficulties: Percentage of children ages 4–17 whose parent had contacta with a health care provider or school staff, who were prescribed medication, or who received treatment other than medication by level of emotional and behavioral difficulty, 2006

HEALTH3.B Emotional and behavioral difficulties: Percentage of children ages 4–17 whose parent had contact^a with a health care provider or school staff, who were prescribed medication, or who received treatment other than medication by level of emotional and behavioral difficulty, 2006