Screening efficiency of the self-report version of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children in a highly comorbid inpatient sample.

Autor: Skarphedinsson G; a Gudmundur Skarphedinsson, Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health , Eastern and Southern Norway, Oslo , Norway., Villabø MA; b Marianne A. Villabø, Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health , Eastern and Southern Norway, Oslo , Norway., Lauth B; c Bertrand Lauth, University of Iceland and Landspitali University Hospital , Reykjavik , Iceland.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Nordic journal of psychiatry [Nord J Psychiatry] 2015; Vol. 69 (8), pp. 613-20. Date of Electronic Publication: 2015 Apr 01.
DOI: 10.3109/08039488.2015.1026841
Abstrakt: Background: The Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC) is a widely used self-report questionnaire for the assessment of anxiety symptoms in children and adolescents with well documented predictive validity of the total score and subscales in internalizing and mixed clinical samples. However, no data exist on the screening efficiency in an inpatient sample of adolescents.
Aim: To examine the psychometric properties and screening efficiency of the MASC in a high comorbid inpatient sample.
Method: The current study used receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analyses to investigate the predictive value of the MASC total and subscale scores for the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-age children-Present and Lifetime version (K-SADS-PL), DSM-IV diagnoses of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD), separation anxiety disorder (SAD) and social phobia (SoP) in a highly comorbid inpatient sample of adolescents (11-18 years).
Results: The MASC total score predicted any anxiety disorder (AD) and GAD moderately well. Physical symptoms predicted GAD moderately well. Social anxiety and separation anxiety/panic did not predict SoP or SAD, respectively. Physical symptoms and harm avoidance also predicted the presence of major depressive disorder.
Conclusions: The findings support the utility of the MASC total score to predict the presence of any AD and GAD. However, the utility of the social anxiety and separation anxiety/panic subscales showed limited utility to predict the presence of SAD and SoP, respectively. The MASC has probably a more limited function in screening for AD among a highly comorbid inpatient sample of severely affected adolescents. Our results should be interpreted in the light of a small, mixed sample of inpatient adolescents.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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