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Screen for Childhood Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED)

A self-report screening tool that assesses for a variety of anxiety disorders in children. The SCARED comprises 41 items that measure the severity of anxiety-related symptoms (based on DSM-IV criteria), and is scored on a 3-point scale—Not True/Hardly Ever True (0), Sometimes True(1), and True/Often True (2). The questionnaire is administered by a clinician to children and their parent(s), and requires approximately 10 minutes to administer.

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What it measures

Anxiety

Developer

University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychiatry

Population

Children aged 8 to 18 years

Source

https://www.ohsu.edu/sites/default/files/2019-06/SCARED-form-Parent-and-Child-version.pdf

Language

English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Italian, German, Portuguese

Region

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