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- Title
Measuring anxiety: parent-child reporting differences in clinical samples.
- Authors
Barbosa, Jose; Tannock, Rosemary; Manassis, Katharina
- Abstract
This study examines parent-child reporting differences for childhood anxiety in normal controls (n = 16) and in children with diagnosed anxiety disorders (ANX; n = 15), attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD; n = 15), and comorbid ANX and ADHD (n = 16). Correspondence between child reports of anxiety on two self-report inventories and diagnosis based on structured parent interview was assessed for all four groups. Parent-child agreement did not appear to be measurement dependent but did differ by diagnostic group, with poorer agreement for clinical groups. Though needing replication, these findings suggest that it is inadvisable to rely exclusively on self-report measures when assessing childhood anxiety, especially in clinical populations. Such measures can be useful in monitoring clinical progress, however, provided parent and child reports are examined separately.
- Subjects
ANXIETY; CHILD psychology; ATTENTION-deficit hyperactivity disorder; PARENTS; CHILDREN
- Publication
Depression & Anxiety (1091-4269), 2002, Vol 15, Issue 2, p61
- ISSN
1091-4269
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/da.10022