The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): Scale Construction and Psychometric Characteristics

Birmaher, Boris; Khetarpal, Suneeta; Brent, David A.; Cully, Marlane; Balach, Lisa; Kaufman, Joan; Neer, Sandra Mc Kenzie

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“…Items are scored on a 3-point scale (0=not/hardly ever true to 2=true to very true). The SCARED has good reliability and has been shown to significantly discriminate between anxiety depression and disruptive disorders, as well as within individual anxiety disorders (Birmaher et al, 1997). Internal consistency was.91 in our sample.…”

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confidence: 61%

“…The measure has good internal consistency and test-retest reliability for these symptom constructs . Anxiety was measured by LONGITUDINAL PROFILES OF ODD 13 the total score on the parent-reported Screen for Child Anxiety and Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED, Birmaher et al, 1997). The 41 items in the scale measure generalized anxiety, separation anxiety, panic, school anxiety, and social phobia.…”

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Longitudinal Profiles of Girls’ Irritable, Defiant and Antagonistic Oppositional Symptoms: Evidence for Group Based Differences in Symptom Severity

Boylan

Rowe

Duku

et al. 2016

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Objective: Three subdimensions of ODD symptoms have been proposed -angry/irritable (IR), argumentative/defiant (DF) and antagonism (AN). This study tested whether longitudinal symptom trajectories could be identified by these subdimensions. Method: Group-based trajectory analysis was used to identify developmental trajectories of IR, DF and AN symptoms. Multi-group trajectory analysis was then used to identify how subdimension trajectories were linked together over time. Data were drawn from the Pittsburgh Girls Study (PGS; N=2450), an urban community sample of girls between the ages of five--eight at baseline. We included five waves of annual data across ages five-13 to model trajectories.Results: Three trajectories were identified for each ODD subdimension: DF and AN were characterized by high, medium and low severity groups; IR was characterized by low, medium stable, and high increasing groups. Multi-trajectory analysis confirmed these subdimensions were best linked together based on symptom severity. We did not identify girls' trajectory groups that were characterized predominantly by a particular subdimension of ODD symptoms. Membership in more severe symptom groups was significantly associated with worse outcomes five years later. Conclusions: In childhood and early adolescence girls with high levels of ODD symptoms can be identified, and these youth are characterized by a persistently elevated profile of IR, DF and AN symptoms. Further studies in clinical samples are required to examine the ICD-10 proposal that ODD with irritability is a distinct or more severe form of ODD.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Longitudinal Profiles of Girls’ Irritable, Defiant and Antagonistic Oppositional Symptoms: Evidence for Group Based Differences in Symptom Severity

Boylan

Rowe

Duku

et al. 2016

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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“…The internal reliability in this study (Cronbach's α) was 0.89 for the obsession scale, 0.93 for the compulsion scale, and 0.93 for the total score. (Birmaher et al, 1997) The SCARED is a self-report scale for children with anxiety disorders. It contains 38 items describing different emotions and behaviors.…”

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Subjective versus objective measures of tic severity in Tourette syndrome – The influence of environment

Barnea

Benaroya-Milshtein

Gilboa-Sechtman

et al. 2016

Psychiatry Research

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“…Children answered the SCARED, 14,20 the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), 21 the Children's Depression Inventory (CDI), 22 the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), 23 and questions about bullying/ victimization. 24 The SCARED is a 41-item self-report measure of pediatric anxiety symptoms, divided into five subscales: GAD (nine items); SeAD (eight items); SoAD (seven items); panic/somatic (13 items); and school phobia (four items).…”

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“…Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) 14 was administered to 2,457 adolescents, aged 10 to 19 years, to screen for symptoms of anxiety. The remaining 297 (11.1%) were not covered by the survey due to school dropout or transfer to another school (n=217, 7.9%) or refusal to participate (n=80, 3.2%).…”

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Internalizing disorders and quality of life in adolescence: evidence for independent associations

Salum

DeSousa²,

Bosa³

et al. 2014

Rev. Bras. Psiquiatr.

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Objective: To investigate whether internalizing disorders are associated with quality of life (QoL) in adolescents, even after accounting for shared risk factors. Methods: The sample comprised 102 adolescents from a community cross-sectional study with an oversampling of anxious subjects. Risk factors previously associated with QoL were assessed and divided into five blocks organized hierarchically from proximal to distal sets of risk factors. Results: Multiple regression analysis yielded a hierarchical model accounting for 72% of QoL variance. All blocks were consistently associated with QoL (p , 0.05), accounting for the following percentages of variance: 12% for demographics; 5.2% for family environment; 37.8% for stressful events; 10% for nutritional and health habits; and 64.2% for dimensional psychopathological symptoms or 22.8% for psychiatric diagnoses (dichotomous). Although most of the QoL variance attributed to internalizing symptoms was explained by the four proximal blocks in the hierarchical model (43.2%), about 21% of the variance was independently associated with internalizing symptoms/diagnoses. Conclusions: QoL is associated with several aspects of adolescent life that were largely predicted by our hierarchical model. Our findings reinforce the hypothesis that internalizing disorders and internalizing symptoms in adolescents have a high impact on QoL and deserve proper clinical attention.

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The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): Scale Construction and Psychometric Characteristics

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References 45 publications

Longitudinal Profiles of Girls’ Irritable, Defiant and Antagonistic Oppositional Symptoms: Evidence for Group Based Differences in Symptom Severity

Longitudinal Profiles of Girls’ Irritable, Defiant and Antagonistic Oppositional Symptoms: Evidence for Group Based Differences in Symptom Severity

Subjective versus objective measures of tic severity in Tourette syndrome – The influence of environment

Internalizing disorders and quality of life in adolescence: evidence for independent associations

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