Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale
The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) is a psychometric tool used to measure anxiety and depression symptoms in children and adolescents, originally developed by Chorpita et al. (2000). The tool consists of 47 items and targets five different subscales: separation anxiety disorder, social phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and major depressive disorder. Likert-type response options range from 0 (“never”) to 3 (“always”). Higher scores on the RCADS indicate greater symptom severity.
The RCADS has shown good psychometric properties in various studies. The internal consistency of the subscales has been reported with Cronbach’s alpha ranging from 0.60 to 0.93 (Chorpita et al., 2000; Ebesutani et al., 2011). Ebesutani et al. (2011) also established a significant test-retest reliability for RCADS after a 2- to 4-week interval (0.58 to 0.86). Moreover, the RCADS has shown strong convergent and discriminant validity with other relevant measures, such as Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) and Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale (SCAS; Chorpita et al., 2000; Ebesutani et al., 2011).
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