title: Emotional symptoms in inattentive primary school children: a population-based study.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The present study investigates teacher and parent reports of inattention and emotional symptoms in 6,229 primary school children.
  
  
  METHODS
  The assessment included the Emotional Symptoms subscale and the Impact scale from the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and the inattention items from the Swanson, Nolan, and Pelham IV Questionnaire.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Children defined as inattentive showed a high risk of being defined as high scorers on the Emotional Symptoms subscale. A high score on both the Inattention and Emotional Symptoms subscales was associated with a high impact score. Teachers but not parents reported a higher risk of such co-occurrence of symptoms in girls than in boys.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Inattentive children should be screened for emotional problems by use of the multi-informants method.
authors.affiliation: University of Bergen, Norway. lin.sorensen@psybp.uib.no
authors.forename: Lin
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sørensen
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hugdahl
authors.forename: Astri Johansen
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Lundervold
mesh_terms: D000339:Affect; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D019260:Expressed Emotion; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D015995:Prevalence; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012574:Schools; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires