title: Psychometric properties of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders in a rural high school population.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Evaluate psychometric properties of the 41-item SCARED (Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders) when used with a rural community-dwelling sample.
  
  
  METHODS
  As part of a randomized controlled trial, SCARED was administered to 193 adolescents in a rural high-school setting. Internal consistency, test-retest reliability, and factor structure were assessed.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Adequate internal consistency (α= 0.93) and test-retest reliability (r= 0.703) were demonstrated. Five factors were identified with a differing composition than previously reported.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The SCARED was found to be a reliable tool in the rural adolescent population. Differences in some factors suggest further research is needed.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. tmh24@pitt.edu
authors.forename: Tammy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Haley
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Puskar
authors.forename: Lauren
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Terhorst
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000379:methods*; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012424:Rural Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D012574:Schools