Reliability and validity of the Arabic Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) in a clinical sample

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 209, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 222-228

  Hariz, Nayla ^a   Bawab, Souha ^a   Atwi, Mia ^a   Tavitian, Lucy ^a   Zeinoun, Pia ^a   Khani, Munir ^a   Birmaher, Boris ^b   Nahas, Ziad ^a   Maalouf, Fadi T ^a,b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Anxiety; Children; Scale; Screening; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARAB; ARABIC SCREEN FOR CHILD ANXIETY RELATED EMOTIONAL DISORDERS; ARABIC STRENGTHS AND DIFFICULTIES QUESTIONNAIRE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT VALIDITY; DEPRESSION; DISCRIMINANT VALIDITY; DSM-IV; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PANIC; PARENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SOCIAL PHOBIA;

ADOLESCENTS; ANXIETY; CHILDREN; SCALE; SCREENING; VALIDATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; TRANSLATING;

EID: 84883236972     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.12.002     Document Type: Article

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