title: Reliability and validity of the Arabic Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) in a clinical sample.
abstract: This study aimed at investigating the reliability and validity of the Arabic Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) as a first child and adolescent anxiety screening tool in the Arab World. The English parent (SCARED-P) and child (SCARED-C) versions were translated into Arabic and administered along with the Arabic Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) to 77 parents and 67 children attending a Psychiatry clinic. DSM-IV-TR diagnoses were made by a psychiatrist without knowledge of the scale scores. Internal consistency was confirmed by Cronbach's α=0.92 for SCARED-P and 0.91 for SCARED-C. Their subscales had internal consistencies between 0.65 and 0.89. Parent-child agreement was r=0.67, p<0.001. SCARED-P demonstrated good discriminant validity between participants with anxiety disorders and those with other psychiatric disorders (t(72)=3.13, p=0.003). For SCARED-C, this difference was significant when participants with depressive disorders were excluded (t(43)=2.58, p=0.01). Convergent validity was evident through a significant correlation between SCARED-P and the parent SDQ emotional subscale (r=0.70, p<0.001), and SCARED-C and the child SDQ emotional subscale (r=0.70, p<0.001). Divergent validity with the SDQ hyperactivity subscale was observed as no significant correlation was found. Overall, the Arabic SCARED demonstrated satisfactory psychometric properties in a clinical sample in Lebanon.
authors: Department of Psychiatry, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon.
authors: Nayla
authors: N
authors: Hariz
authors: Souha
authors: S
authors: Bawab
authors: Mia
authors: M
authors: Atwi
authors: Lucy
authors: L
authors: Tavitian
authors: Pia
authors: P
authors: Zeinoun
authors: Munir
authors: M
authors: Khani
authors: Boris
authors: B
authors: Birmaher
authors: Ziad
authors: Z
authors: Nahas
authors: Fadi T
authors: FT
authors: Maalouf
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007861:Lebanon / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000208:ethnology; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D012372:ROC Curve; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014175:Translating
keywords: Adolescents; Anxiety; Children; Scale; Screening; Validation