Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health (Jun 2010)

German Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): Reliability, Validity, and Cross-Informant Agreement in a Clinical Sample

  • Wiegand-Grefe Silke,
  • Rosenthal Sandra,
  • Romer Georg,
  • Weitkamp Katharina,
  • Daniels Judith

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1753-2000-4-19
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
p. 19

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Abstract Background The psychometric properties and cross-informant agreement of a German translation of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) were assessed in a clinical sample Methods 102 children and adolescents in outpatient psychotherapy and their parents filled out the SCARED and Youth Self Report/Child Behaviour Checklist (YSR/CBCL). Results The German SCARED showed good internal consistency for both parent and self-report version, and proved to be convergently and discriminantly valid when compared with YSR/CBCL scales. Cross-informant agreement was moderate with children reporting both a larger number as well as higher severity of anxiety symptoms than their parents. Conclusion In conclusion, the German SCARED is a valid and reliable anxiety scale and may be used in a clinical setting