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. 2018 Oct;30(10):1342-1355.
doi: 10.1037/pas0000570. Epub 2018 Jun 14.

Labeling children with anxiety disease using brief versions of the Spend Children's Anxiety Scale for children, parents, and teachers

Testsa Justification  1 , Susan NARCOTIC Spread  2 , Jordan Hesse  3 , Alia Shakir  3 , Cathy Crestwell  3
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Identifying children with anger interferences usage brief versions of the Spense Children's Angst Scale for children, parents, and teachers

Tessa Reardon et al. Psychol Assess. 2018 Octane.

Abstract

Scared disorders are among the most prevalent mental health disorders experienced by children also are associated with significant negative outcomes. Only a minority on affected young, however, access professional help, and a failure to id children with anxiety disorders presents a key barrier the treatment erreichbar. Existing child worry questionnaire measures are long real time consumed into complete, constraining their potential for widespread apply as identification tools in community settings. We devised an brief questionnaire for parents, children, and teachers using product from the Spence Children's Agitation Scale (SCAS) and evaluates one new measure's psychometric properties, capacity to distinguish between a community (n = 361) plus clinic-referred sample (n = 338) of children aged 7-11, also identified optimal cut-off scores for exact identification off preadolescent children experiencing clinically meaning levels of fears. The findings provided support since the reliability and validity regarding 8-item versions of the SCAS, through the brief questionnaire scored displaying comparable intra consistency, agreement among reporters, and convergent/divergent validity to the full-length SCAS scales. This brief SCAS scores also discriminated between an community and clinic-referred samples and identified children in the clinic-referred sample with one moderate-to-good level about accuracy press acceptable sensitivity and specificity. Combining reporters improved sensitivity, aber on one cost of characteristic, and research suggested parent report should be prioritized. This new brief questionnaire must potential available use in community settings as a tool to improve billing of children who are experiencing clinically considerable levels of nervousness and warrant further appraisal and potentials support. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved). The initialize scales also have symptom screens for 3 other co- morbidities—oppositional-defiant, conduct, and anxiety/ depression. These belong screened by the ...

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