{"id":6676,"date":"2020-11-17T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-17T15:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/?p=6676"},"modified":"2025-02-07T11:52:34","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T16:52:34","slug":"child-depression-and-anxiety-rcads-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/child-depression-and-anxiety-rcads-25\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Depression and Anxiety | RCADS 25"},"content":{"rendered":"

Revised Children\u2019s Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS-25)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Recommended\u00a0frequency: Every 2 weeks<\/em><\/p>\n

Summary<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

The Revised Children\u2019s Anxiety and Depression Scale-25 (RCADS-25) is a 25-item scale that measures levels of anxiety (e.g. \u201cI worry when I think I have done poorly at something\u201d) and low mood (e.g. \u201cI feel sad or empty\u201d). The scale has two subscales (Total Anxiety and Total Depression) and an overall score. Both the anxiety and depression subscales have strong relation to anxiety and depression diagnostic groups. All items assess the frequency of symptoms and are rated on a 4-point Likert scale.<\/p>\n

The child self-report scale can be used by children and adolescents between the ages of 8 to 18. A parent (or caregiver) version is also available to rate a child or adolescent’s level of anxiety and depressive symptoms based on personal observations (e.g., \u201cNothing is much fun for my child anymore.\u201d).<\/p>\n

Psychometric Properties of RCADS-25<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

The subscales of the RCADS-25 have acceptable reliability in clinic (Total Anxiety \u03b1 = .96, Total Depression \u03b1 = .80) and school-based (Total Anxiety \u03b1 = .94, Total Depression \u03b1 = .79) samples. Other studies have found the Total Anxiety subscale to have good to excellent internal consistency (\u03b1s = .87-.95) and acceptable to good test-retest reliability (rs = .78-.86). The RCADS-25 (Parent) subscales and total score demonstrate good to excellent test-retest reliability in school (rs = .83-.85) and clinical (rs = .84-.90) samples and possesses good convergent and divergent validity in both samples.<\/p>\n

Sources:<\/p>\n

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  1. https:\/\/www.childfirst.ucla.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2018\/03\/RCADSUsersGuide20150701.pdf<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/22329531<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/26834091<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0887618513002132<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Revised Children\u2019s Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS-25) Recommended\u00a0frequency: Every 2 weeks Summary The Revised Children\u2019s Anxiety and Depression Scale-25 (RCADS-25) is a 25-item scale that measures levels of anxiety (e.g. \u201cI worry when I think I have done poorly at something\u201d) and low mood (e.g. \u201cI feel sad or empty\u201d). The scale has two subscales […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-assessment-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greenspacehealth.com\/en-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}