OBJECTIVE: To examine the psychometric properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) for a community sample of African-American high school students. METHOD: The 41-item SCARED was administered to 111 adolescents (57 girls; mean age 15.75) in an urban parochial school. Item frequency, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and construct validity were assessed. RESULTS: Approximately 30% of the sample had scores high enough to warrant further assessment for anxiety disorders, and girls reported significantly higher anxiety symptoms than boys. Internal consistency (alpha =.89) and test-retest reliability (r = 0.47) over 6 months for the SCARED's total score were good. The SCARED's total score was positively correlated with other measures of anxiety symptoms and inattention and was negatively correlated with perceived self-worth. Unlike the five-factor structure reported for primarily white samples, only three factors emerged for this African-American sample. CONCLUSIONS: The SCARED shows utility as a self-report anxiety screening instrument in a community sample of African-American youths.
OBJECTIVE: To examine the psychometric properties of the Screen for ChildAnxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) for a community sample of African-American high school students. METHOD: The 41-item SCARED was administered to 111 adolescents (57 girls; mean age 15.75) in an urban parochial school. Item frequency, internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and construct validity were assessed. RESULTS: Approximately 30% of the sample had scores high enough to warrant further assessment for anxiety disorders, and girls reported significantly higher anxiety symptoms than boys. Internal consistency (alpha =.89) and test-retest reliability (r = 0.47) over 6 months for the SCARED's total score were good. The SCARED's total score was positively correlated with other measures of anxiety symptoms and inattention and was negatively correlated with perceived self-worth. Unlike the five-factor structure reported for primarily white samples, only three factors emerged for this African-American sample. CONCLUSIONS: The SCARED shows utility as a self-report anxiety screening instrument in a community sample of African-American youths.
Authors: Anna R Van Meter; Dokyoung S You; Tate Halverson; Eric A Youngstrom; Boris Birmaher; Mary A Fristad; Robert A Kowatch; Amy Storfer-Isser; Sarah M Horwitz; Thomas W Frazier; L Eugene Arnold; Robert L Findling; The Lams Group Journal: J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol Date: 2016-08-02
Authors: Ruth C Brown; Ilya Yaroslavsky; Alexis M Quinoy; Allan D Friedman; Richard R Brookman; Michael A Southam-Gerow Journal: Child Psychiatry Hum Dev Date: 2013-08