OBJECTIVE: To replicate and extend work on the psychometric properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED), a child and parent self-report instrument used to screen for children with anxiety disorders. METHOD: The 41-item version of the SCARED was administered to a new sample of 190 outpatient children and adolescents and 166 parents. The internal consistency, discriminant, and convergent validity were assessed. In addition, using discriminant function analysis, a briefer version of the SCARED was developed. RESULTS: Using item analyses and factor analyses on the 41-item version, 5 factors were obtained: panic/somatic, generalized anxiety, separation anxiety, social phobia, and school phobia. In general, the total score and each of the 5 factors for both the child and parent SCARED demonstrated good internal consistency and discriminant validity (both between anxiety and depressive and disruptive disorders and within anxiety disorders). A reduced version of the SCARED yielded 5 items and showed similar psychometrics to the full SCARED. CONCLUSIONS: In a new sample, the authors replicated their initial psychometric findings that the SCARED is a reliable and valid instrument to screen for childhood anxiety disorders in clinical settings. Furthermore, pending future research, the 5-item SCARED appears to be a promising brief screening inventory for anxiety disorders in epidemiological studies.
OBJECTIVE: To replicate and extend work on the psychometric properties of the Screen for ChildAnxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED), a child and parent self-report instrument used to screen for children with anxiety disorders. METHOD: The 41-item version of the SCARED was administered to a new sample of 190 outpatientchildren and adolescents and 166 parents. The internal consistency, discriminant, and convergent validity were assessed. In addition, using discriminant function analysis, a briefer version of the SCARED was developed. RESULTS: Using item analyses and factor analyses on the 41-item version, 5 factors were obtained: panic/somatic, generalized anxiety, separation anxiety, social phobia, and school phobia. In general, the total score and each of the 5 factors for both the child and parent SCARED demonstrated good internal consistency and discriminant validity (both between anxiety and depressive and disruptive disorders and within anxiety disorders). A reduced version of the SCARED yielded 5 items and showed similar psychometrics to the full SCARED. CONCLUSIONS: In a new sample, the authors replicated their initial psychometric findings that the SCARED is a reliable and valid instrument to screen for childhood anxiety disorders in clinical settings. Furthermore, pending future research, the 5-item SCARED appears to be a promising brief screening inventory for anxiety disorders in epidemiological studies.
Authors: Rany Abend; Leone de Voogd; Elske Salemink; Reinout W Wiers; Koraly Pérez-Edgar; Amanda Fitzgerald; Lauren K White; Giovanni A Salum; Jie He; Wendy K Silverman; Jeremy W Pettit; Daniel S Pine; Yair Bar-Haim Journal: Depress Anxiety Date: 2017-12-06 Impact factor: 6.505
Authors: Michael B Himle; Matthew R Capriotti; Loran P Hayes; Krishnapriya Ramanujam; Lawrence Scahill; Denis G Sukhodolsky; Sabine Wilhelm; Thilo Deckersbach; Alan L Peterson; Matt W Specht; John T Walkup; Susanna Chang; John Piacentini Journal: Behav Modif Date: 2014-04-28
Authors: Amy C Gross; Alexander M Kaizer; Justin R Ryder; Claudia K Fox; Kyle D Rudser; Donald R Dengel; Aaron S Kelly Journal: J Pediatr Date: 2018-05-10 Impact factor: 4.406