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


CONCLUSIONS
In conclusion, the German SCARED is a valid and reliable anxiety scale and may be used in a clinical setting.
Weitkamp
Katharina
K
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistrasse 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany. jdanie6@uwo.ca.
Romer
Georg
G
Rosenthal
Sandra
S
Wiegand-Grefe
Silke
S
Daniels
Judith
J