title: A psychometric analysis of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scales--parent version in a school sample.
abstract: The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale-Parent Version (RCADS-P) is a parent-report questionnaire of youth anxiety and depression with scales corresponding to the DSM diagnoses of separation anxiety disorder, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and major depressive disorder. The RCADS-P was recently developed and has previously demonstrated strong psychometric properties in a clinic-referred sample (Ebesutani et al., Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 38, 249-260, 2010b). The present study examined the psychometric properties of the RCADS-P in a school-based population. As completed by parents of 967 children and adolescents, the RCADS-P demonstrated high internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and good convergent/divergent validity, supporting the RCADS-P as a measure of internalizing problems specific to depression and five anxiety disorders in school samples. Normative data are also reported to allow for the derivation of T-scores to enhance clinicians' ability to make classification decisions using RCADS-P subscale scores.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, USA. ebesutani@ucla.edu
authors.forename: Chad
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ebesutani
authors.forename: Bruce F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Chorpita
authors.forename: Charmaine K
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Higa-McMillan
authors.forename: Brad J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Regan
authors.forename: Roxanna E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Lynch
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012574:Schools; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires