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Measuring anxiety: Parent‐child reporting differences in clinical samples
Author(s) -
Barbosa Jose,
Tannock Rosemary,
Manassis Katharina
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
depression and anxiety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.634
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1520-6394
pISSN - 1091-4269
DOI - 10.1002/da.10022
Subject(s) - anxiety , psychology , clinical psychology , psychiatry , attention deficit , attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
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. Depression and Anxiety 15:61–65, 2002. © 2002 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.