The Rutter Behaviour Questionnaire was used to assess prevalence rates of behaviour problems in 9- to 12-year-old pupils (N = 402) in St. Helena, South Atlantic. The prevalence rate for this enquiry (6.9%) is among the lowest found in the literature for studies using this questionnaire with similarly aged samples.
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