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Screening capacity of the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC) for DSM-IV anxiety disorders

✍ Scribed by Willemijn van Gastel; Robert F. Ferdinand

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 94 KB
Volume: 25
Category: Article
ISSN: 1091-4269
DOI: 10.1002/da.20452

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✦ Synopsis

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. Methods: This study used receiver operating characteristic analyses to investigate the predictive value of the MASC total and scale scores for DSM-IV anxiety diagnoses in a referred sample. Eight-to 18-year-olds (n 5 212) were assessed with the MASC and Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for Children (ADIS-C). Results: The MASC total score did not exceed the threshold for being judged as fair in predicting any ADIS-

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