The measurement properties of the spence childrens anxiety scale parent version in. Using a videogame intervention to reduce anxiety and. Anxiety was measured with parentversion of the spence childrens anxiety scale, and depression was measured using maria kovacs childrens depression inventory questionnaire. The major sample involved in the acquisition of normative data included 2,052 children.
The intervention core acts as a nexus where health researchers can connect with behavioral intervention experts. Revised depression and anxiety scale, rcads a derivative of the. Psychometric properties of spence childrens anxiety scale with. Welcome to the spence childrens anxiety scale website. The literature provides several examples of anxiety symptoms questionnaires for children. Family involvement in cognitivebehavioral therapy for.
Spence childrens anxiety scale scas parent version. Treatment of anxiety and depression in the preschool period. Description the spence childrens anxiety scale scas was developed to assess the severity of anxiety symptoms broadly in line with the dimensions of anxiety disorder proposed by the dsm iv. All participants completed 6 questionnaires in their classrooms.
Severity measure for agoraphobia craske, wittchen, bogels, stein, andrews, lebu 20 scale adult download. The spence children s anxiety scale scas is a child selfreport measure designed to evaluate symptoms relating to separation anxiety, social phobia, obsessivecompulsive disorder, panic. The school anxiety scale teacher report sastr was designed to assess anxiety in children at school. Abstract the spence childrens anxiety scale scas is a 38item selfreport questionnaire which measures symptoms of dsmiv anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. The school environment provides an ideal context to deliver prevention programs, with potential to offset the trajectory towards disorder. The spence children s anxiety scale was designed by spence et al. The control group only benefited from the routine services of the center. The parents of 777 children 67% consented, while 93 parents 8% refused to consent, and 293 parents 25% did.
Adolescents were reimbursed for their participation with an evoucher. The spence children s anxiety scale scas is a child selfreport measure designed to evaluate symptoms relating to separation anxiety, social phobia, obsessivecompulsive disorder, panicagoraphobia, generalized anxiety and fears of physical injury. Preschool anxiety scale revised pasr the subscale scores are based on results using a sample of 764 mothers and 418 fathers of children aged 3 to 5 years. Welcome to the spence children s anxiety scale website information for researchers and practitioners susan h spence, phd. Instructions for scoring preschool anxiety scale revised. The revised children s manifest anxiety scale rcmas. The scas and its parent version scasp are useful clinical tools for the detection and assessment of social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, specific phobia, panicagoraphobia, obsessivecompulsive disorder and separation anxiety disorder among adolescents aim. Barriers and facilitators to parents seeking and accessing. Press the button below to download a copy of the scale. This test contains 45 items and helps in diagnostics. The anxiety disorders interview schedule for children and parents ivparent version. Assessing adolescent anxiety in general psychiatric.
Although statetrait anxiety inventory stai 12 is the most commonly used anxiety scale, this scale is designed for adults and developmental differences are not taken into account. The comprehensive application of these instruments, which include more than 40 items, is of great use for screening in epidemiological. Abidin, 2012 and the spence childrens anxiety scale scas. Spence, 1998 was used to assess current symptoms of anxiety. Curriculum based measurement cbm was not included in above list.
The scasp consists of 38 items rated on a fourpoint scale, ranging from 0never to 3always. The assessment of anxiety symptoms in preschoolaged children. There was a significant positive correlation between psi and scas scores r. Revised childrens anxiety and depression scale and. The rcads and its related scales weredevelop ed using many of the items on the spence childrens anxiety scale 1997, along with items representing dsm major depression symptoms and new items related to. Never sometime often always 1 my child worries about things 0 1 2 3. In addition, the subdimensions of anxiety are not measured. Fcbt for childrens anxiety disorders draws on effective cognitivebehavioral techniques 4 and supplements these with targeted family interventions. Garciafernandez 4 1 department of personality, psychological assessment and. Pdf the utility of the spence childrens anxiety scale scas in. Seventeen schools agreed, and a total of 1163 children from these schools were asked to participate. Anxiety symptoms were measured most frequently with the spence children s anxiety scale scas. Frequency charts and correlational statistics were used to analyze the data.
Spence children s anxiety scale child scas child description the scas child version is a 45item selfreport scale used to assess severity of anxiety symptoms in children aged 815 years. The scale is completed by asking the child to read and follow the instructions on the printed form. March, parker, sullivan, stallings, and conners, 1997, and the revised children s manifest anxiety scale rcmas. The results of confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses supported six factors consistent with the hypothesized diagnostic categories.
Brief spence childrens anxiety scale 7 a number of questionnaires designed to assess anxiety in children exist, typically consisting of corresponding child and parent report questionnaires e. The scale was developed and standardized initially. Anxiety scale for children masc, the liebowitz social anxiety scale, the social phobia and anxiety inventory for children, the spence childrens anxiety scale child and parent report scas, fear survey schedule for children revised, stait trait anxiety inventory child staic, anxiety disorder interview schedule child version. Selfreport for childhood anxiety related disorders scaredchild about self. Adolescents 1115 years old were randomly assigned to play dojo or a control game. However, these questionnaires generally contain many items, and might not be ideal for screening in large populations, or repeated testing in clinical settings. Development of the spence childrens anxiety scale short version scass. Psychometric properties of spence childrens anxiety scale.
Abstract depression and anxiety often emerge for the first time during youth. Psychometric properties of the spence childrens anxiety. Oct 04, 2017 the traditional tests for anxiety, such as the screen for child anxietyrelated emotional disorders and the spence childrens anxiety scale, rarely hold up as well in children with autism as they do in the groups they were designed for. Never sometimes often always paa 10 11 12 14 15 16 18 19 sa pif paa. The spence childrens anxiety scale created by spence 1998 is a selfreport measure of anxiety originally developed to examine anxiety symptoms in children aged 812 years. Psychometric properties of the spence childrens anxiety scale with young adolescents.
The spence childrens anxiety scale scas is an extensively used and evaluated 44item questionnaire developed to assess anxiety. This study aimed to translate and validate the sastr in iran. Development of the spence childrens anxiety scale short. Free text boxes are also available to record both patient clinician name, date of completion, file number and any other relevant clinical information such as specific phobias. Brazilian portuguese version of the spence children s anxiety scale scasbrasil. The comprehensive application of these instruments, which include more than 40 items, is of great use for screening in. The spence childrens anxiety scale scas is a psychological questionnaire designed to identify symptoms of various anxiety disorders, specifically social phobia, obsessivecompulsive disorder, panic disorder agoraphobia, and other forms of anxiety, in children and adolescents between ages 8 and 15. Revised children s anxiety and depression scale and subscales overview the revised child anxiety and depression scale rcads is a 47item, youth selfreport questionnaire with subscales including. Each child was instructed to complete the revised childrens anxiety scale and then answer questions from a structured interview. Development of the spence childrens anxiety scale short version.
Nov 29, 2017 selfreported and mentorreported anxiety was measured using the total scores of the dutch version of the spence childrens anxiety scale scas. Pdf development of the spence childrens anxiety scale. Request pdf psychometric properties of spence childrens anxiety scale with young adolescents the psychometric properties of the. Scared screen for childhood anxietyrelated disorders. The adolescent described in this report lives a long distance from treatment providers with expertise in managing severe ocd symptoms. This case study describes the use of intensive exposure and response prevention erp for the treatment of pediatric obsessivecompulsive disorder ocd. Understanding the difficulties parents face seeking support for child anxiety disorders could inform targeted interventions to improve treatment access. The spence children s anxiety scale scoring sheet parent version name. Screen for child anxiety related emotional disorders scared. Effects of art therapy program on anxiety and depression. Orgiles m, mendez x, spence sh, huedomedina tb, espada jp 2012 spanish validation of the spence children s anxiety scale. Child anxiety life interference scale calis commonly, clinical measures of childrens anxiety focus on the assessment of disorder symptoms to support formal diagnoses.
Active tx showed lower frequency and severity of anxiety disorders and symptoms. We developed a brief questionnaire for parents, children, and teachers using items from the spence childrens anxiety scale scas and. The spence childrens anxiety scale scas developed by spence 1998, is a selfreport measure designed to assess the severity of anxiety symptoms in children relating to separation anxiety, social phobia, obsessivecompulsive disorder, panic agoraphobia, generalised anxiety and fears of physical injury. Pdf reliability and validity of the spence childrens. Pdf the utility of the spence childrens anxiety scale. The gad7 instrument of spitzer et al for measuring generalized anxiety disorder. Hospital anxiety and depression scale hads tick the box beside the reply that is closest to how you have been feeling in the past week.
The total anxiety score minimummaximum score 0144 was used in analyses. Despite high rates of clinically elevated anxiety difficulties in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders asds, very few studies have systematically examined the usefulness of commonly used caregiver report anxiety screening tools. Nov 16, 2011 spanish validation of the spence childrens anxiety scale article pdf available in child psychiatry and human development 432. Jan 25, 2018 anxiety disorders are among the most common mental health disorders experienced by children, but only a minority of these children access professional help. The scale is completed by a parent of an anxious child between the ages of 6 to 18. Magiati and others published the utility of the spence childrens anxiety scale. When cbm is used, a teacher regularly assesses the students progress in specific areas, as prereading, reading, spelling, mathematics or written expression. Spence, 1998, followed by the multidimensional anxiety scale for children masc. Pdf psychometric properties of the spence childrens. Mothers completed the spence childrens anxiety scale for parents scasp17 when their child was 10 years old. Spence children s anxiety scale parent scasparent instructions. The spence childrens anxiety scale scas was developed by dr.
Child anxiety life interference scale calis scoring. The spence childrens anxiety scale scas was developed by spence 1998 with the aim of. Testing the psychometric properties of the spence childrens. The core provides a number of services to help researchers develop collaborations with these experts, in order to both compete for external funding opportunities and complete successful and innovative behavioral intervention studies. Pdf spanish validation of the spence childrens anxiety scale. Cbm is testing of the specific curriculum taught in the classroom. Magiati and others published the utility of the spence children s anxiety scale scas in screening for anxiety disorders in children and youth with autism spectrum. Early developmental pathways to childhood symptoms of.
The sastr is a proxy rated measure and could assess social anxiety, generalized anxiety and also gives a total anxiety score. Although a diagnostic interview would be ideal, a wellvalidated questionnaire with parent and childadolescent versions such as the spence children s anxiety scale could be given to parents and youth to detect clinically significant anxiety. Child anxiety life interference scale calis psychtools. Anxiety spence childrens anxiety scale scas parent version nauta scholing rapee abbott spence and waters. Identifying children with anxiety disorders using brief versions of. Child anxiety life interference scale calis scoring these statistics were determined using a sample of 622 children 617 yrs who presented to 1 of 2 specialist clinics for assessment of anxiety disorders. Selfreport for childhood anxiety related disorders scaredparent about child. Spence childrens anxiety scale includes scoring, parent and. Spence childrens anxiety scale spence 1998 scale download archived copy. It provides an overall measure of anxiety together with scores on six subscales each tapping a specific aspect of child anxiety. Schoolbased depression and anxiety prevention programs for. Psychometric jjt\ properties xavier mendez 1, jose p.
See other formats open 3 access freely available online 0plos i one childrens separation anxiety scale csas. This inventory is a 45item selfreport measure rated on a 4point likert scale from zero never to three always. Spence childrens anxiety scale scas, and three traditional statetrait anxiety inventory for children staic. The testretest reliability reported by spence was 0. Intervention core institute for collaboration on health. You can learn more about the test from the official homepage. The scale assesses six domains of anxiety including generalised anxiety, panic agoraphobia, social phobia, separation anxiety, obsessive.
When i have a problem i get a funny feeling in my stomach. The parentreport spence childrens anxiety scale scas. On completion, each child was instructed to draw a human figure drawing. Three new childhood anxiety scales have comparable. Clicking the arrow on the corresponding item dropdown box, then highlighting and clicking the relevant response option selects the childs answer to each item. Click on the circle that shows how often each of these things happen to you.
The aims of the study were to identify barriers and facilitators to seeking and. Scared, screen for child anxiety related emotional disorders. Assistance to complete the measures was provided by the researcher where necessary e. Outcome measure spence childrens anxiety scale scas.
Full text of childrens separation anxiety scale csas. Robin ramme, griffith university, australia the spence childrens anxiety scale scas. For each item please tap the response that best describes your child. Pdf psychometric properties of the spence child anxiety. Scared screen for childhood anxiety related disorders. Impact of painting therapy on aggression and anxiety of. Parental written consent was required for partici pation in the study. The spence children s anxiety scale scas was developed by dr. Spence children s anxiety scale parent scasparent description the scale is completed by a parent of an anxious child between the ages of 6 to 18. The spence childrens anxiety scale scas is a psychological questionnaire designed to identify symptoms of various anxiety disorders, specifically social. The parenting to reduce adolescent depression and anxiety. P u research c psychology undergraduate research conference.
Spence, 1998 is a 44 item six positive filler items selfreport scale responded to using a 0 never to 3 always point scale. Ten 45minlong art therapy sessions were conducted every day. Effectiveness of art therapy on level of anxiety among. The pdf documents below automatically score the scas questionnaire and help. The spence childrens anxiety scale scas is an extensively used and evaluated 44item questionnaire developed to assess anxiety symptoms in children, and provides a sound base for the. There is no set time period over which the judgement has to be made. The scas consists of 44 items, 38 of which assess specific anxiety symptoms relating to six subscales, namely social phobia. Unmasking anxiety in autism spectrum autism research news. A randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of an. The translation and cultural adaptation of the original questionnaire were carried out in accordance. Jul 29, 2014 there are general selfreports for assessing the different childhood anxiety disorders, including sad, such as the screen for child anxiety related emotional disorders scared or the spence children s anxiety scale scas. The spence childhood anxiety scale scas was completed after each drawing, and drawings evaluated through the use of anxiety scales, to measure changes in anxiety levels according to the concept of triangulation. Psychometric properties of the spence child anxiety scale with adolescents from five european countries. A good description of fundamental cbt techniques was published in 2003.
This site includes information about the spence children s anxiety scale child and parent versions and the preschool anxiety scale, plus a other resources developed by the author that you may find useful. The scas is based on dsmivtr american psychiatric association, 2000 criteria for anxiety disorders. Behavioural inhibition questionnaire social skills training casafs. A preliminary investigation of the spence children s anxiety parent scale as a screening tool for anxiety in young people with autism spectrum disorders. You can learn more about the test from the official homepage click on the circle that shows how often each of these things happen to you. This has led to assessments of anxiety symptom impact or anxiety life interference becoming less common, despite reductions in these impairments contributing to clients. Spence childrens anxiety scale by shauna bardanis on prezi. In a 20 study, scahill and his colleagues investigated one particular test the 20item anxiety scale. Spence childrens anxiety scale parent scas parent description. The spence children anxiety scale has been developed to measure reflect subtypes of anxiety disorders in children, and also including a series of items relating to physical injury fears that were identified in pilot work to be a group of anxiety symptoms that affect children. Schoolage childrens fears, anxiety, and human figure. A randomized controlled trial n 8 was conducted to test the effectiveness of a biofeedback video game dojo for adolescents with elevated levels of anxiety. Download scale scoring and administration norms tscores psychometric properties overview automatic scoring articles. Australia, greece, germany, italy, england, colombia the findings of the psychometric properties were repeated many times over throughout various settings.
Anxiety spence childrens anxiety scale scas sh spence 1997 1. Pdf brazilian portuguese version of the spence children. The spence children s anxiety scale scas is a 38item selfreport questionnaire which measures symptoms of dsmiv anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. Identifying children with anxiety disorders using brief. Adolescent anxiety is debilitating, the most frequently diagnosed adolescent mental health problem, and leads to substantial longterm problems. This selfreport test is designed to assess childrens anxiety, as it assesses a wide range of anxiety symptoms, which include. A brief teacherreport questionnaire with spence childrens anxiety scale scas sensitivity to change yes population paediatrics domain psychological status type of measure parentreport, selfreport icfcodes b1 description the spence children s anxiety scale scas was developed to assess the severity of anxiety symptoms broadly in line with the dimensions of anxiety. Pdf a preliminary investigation of the spence childrens. This measure assesses six domains of anxiety which constitute six subscales.
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