title: Psychometric Properties of the Parent Version of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale in a Clinical Sample of Turkish Children and Adolescents.
abstract: The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale-Parent version (RCADS-P) is a self-report questionnaire that assesses dimensions of DSM-based anxiety and depressive disorders in children and adolescents. The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Turkish version in a clinical sample of 483 children and adolescents. The child and parent versions of the RCADS, parent versions of the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and Adolescent Symptom Inventory-Depression Scale were administered. Current psychiatric diagnoses were assessed via the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children, Present Version. The RCADS-P demonstrated high internal consistency and test-retest reliability, and good convergent, divergent, and discriminant validity. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the DSM-related six-factor structure. With its demonstrated favorable psychometric properties, the Turkish RCADS-P is currently the only validated parent-report instrument that assesses DSM-based anxiety and depressive disorders in children and adolescents in Turkey.
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Bezmialem University, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Vahdet
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Gormez
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey. ayse.ka@windowslive.com.
authors.forename: Ayse
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-7332-3658
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kilincaslan
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Duksung Women's University, Seoul, South Korea.
authors.forename: Chad
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ebesutani
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Bezmialem University, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: A Cahid
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Orengul
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ilyas
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kaya
authors.affiliation: Kütahya Evliya Çelebi Regional Hospital, Kütahya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Veysi
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ceri
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Sakarya University Training and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Serhat
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nasiroglu
authors.affiliation: Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Bezmialem University, Istanbul, Turkey.
authors.forename: Mekiya
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Filiz
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
authors.forename: Bruce F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Chorpita
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis*; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D057566:Self Report; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014177:Translations; D014421:Turkey
keywords: Anxiety; Depression; Parent-report; Reliability; Turkish translation; Validity