Making high-quality measures available in diverse contexts-The psychometric properties of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale in a Norwegian sample.

Recent initiatives have recommended the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) for use in research and as patient-reported outcome in health care globally. We aimed to investigate, for the first time, whether the psychometric properties of the anxiety and depression youth self-report measures, RCADS-47 and RCADS-25, generalize to a Norwegian setting. We examined gender and age differences in symptomatology among 592 children (mean age 10.7 years), and conducted a psychometric investigation of the internal reliability, structural validity, measurement invariance and convergent validity of the RCADS-47 and RCADS-25 youth versions. Girls reported higher levels of anxious and depressive symptoms than boys, but no age differences were observed. Reliability coefficients for the RCADS-47 and RCADS-25 scales indicated good internal consistency. Structural validity for RCADS-47 and RCADS-25 was supported by confirmatory factor analyses results. For both measures, strong gender-based measurement invariance was present. Convergent validity of the RCADS-47 and RCADS-25 with other well-established self-report measures for anxiety (Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children) and depression (The Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire) was supported. The RCADS-47 and RCADS-25 youth versions are valid and reliable instruments for measuring symptoms of anxiety and depression in a Norwegian setting. The results add to the evidence supporting RCADS's cross-cultural validity.

Lisøy C ，Neumer SP ，Waaktaar T ，Ingul JM ，Holen S ，Martinsen K ... -  《-》

Psychometric evaluation of two short versions of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale.

Klaufus L ，Verlinden E ，van der Wal M ，Kösters M ，Cuijpers P ，Chinapaw M ... -  《BMC Psychiatry》

Psychometric properties of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale in Greek Adolescents.

Giannopoulou I ，Pasalari E ，Bali P ，Grammatikaki D ，Ferentinos P ... -  《-》

Psychometric Validation of the Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scales-Parent Version (RCADS-P) in Children Evaluated for ADHD.

Becker SP ，Schindler DN ，Luebbe AM ，Tamm L ，Epstein JN ... -  《-》

A multi-group confirmatory factor analysis of the revised children's anxiety and depression scale (RCADS) in Spain, Chile and Sweden.

Cervin M ，Veas A ，Piqueras JA ，Martínez-González AE ... -  《-》