The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): Scale Construction and Psychometric Characteristics
Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent PsychiatryPublished 1 April 1997
Boris Birmaher, Suneeta Khetarpal, David A. Brent, Marlane Cully, LISA BALACH, Joan Kaufman
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The SCARED shows promise as a screening instrument for anxiety disorders and has good internal consistency, test-retest reliability, discriminative validity, and moderate parent-child agreement.
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The SCARED shows promise as a screening instrument for anxiety disorders. Future studies using the SCARED in community samples are indicated.
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