Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: German Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED): Reliability, Validity, and Cross-Informant Agreement in a Clinical Sample. | Weitkamp et al. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health 2010 4 19 http content 4 1 19 CHILD ADOLESCENT PSYCHIATRY MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH Open Access German Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders SCARED Reliability Validity and Cross-Informant Agreement in a Clinical Sample Katharina Weitkamp 1 Georg Romer1 Sandra Rosenthal1 Silke Wiegand-Grefe1 and Judith Daniels 1 2 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 Background Anxiety disorders are a widespread phenomenon in children and adolescents 1-3 . Due to the covert nature of the symptoms these disorders often remain underdiagnosed and untreated. Ravens-Sieberer and her colleagues reported that less than half of the children affected by severe anxiety symptoms received treatment at the time of the assessment although the anxiety pathology considerably affected their well-being and functioning 3 . The undertreatment of anxiety disorders may be due to the fact that children and adolescents with internalizing symptoms do not exhibit interpersonal behaviour problems that would exact a thorough diagnostic. Considering the fact that in some children anxiety pathologies persist into adulthood or act as a risk .
