The Separation Anxiety Daily Diary: Child Version--Feasibility and Psychometric Properties

Autor/inn/en	Allen, Jennifer L.; Blatter-Meunier, Judith; Ursprung, Antonia; Schneider, Silvia
Titel	The Separation Anxiety Daily Diary: Child Version--Feasibility and Psychometric Properties
Quelle	In: Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 41 (2010) 6, S.649-662 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-398X
DOI	10.1007/s10578-010-0194-1
Schlagwörter	Quality of Life; Validity; Children; Parent Child Relationship; Diaries; Foreign Countries; Psychometrics; Separation Anxiety; Control Groups; Measures (Individuals); Correlation; Compliance (Psychology); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Switzerland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lebensqualität; Gültigkeit; Child; Kind; Kinder; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Diary; Tagebuch; Ausland; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Trennungsangst; Messdaten; Korrelation; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Schweiz
Abstract	This report describes the feasibility and psychometric properties of the child version of the Separation Anxiety Daily Diary (SADD-C) in 125 children (ages 7-14 years) from German-speaking areas of Switzerland. Children with separation anxiety disorder (SAD; n = 58), "other" anxiety disorders (n = 36), and healthy controls (n = 31) recorded the frequency of parent-child separations, along with associated anxiety, thoughts, reactions and subsequent parental responses. Compliance rates were modest, consistent with past research on self-report diaries with anxious children. The SADD-C was better at discriminating children with SAD from controls than "other anxious" children. The SADD-C demonstrated good convergent validity with maternal and child self-reported anxiety (Revised Child Manifest Anxiety Scale, Separation Anxiety Inventory) and perceived quality of life (Inventory for Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents). Results provide support for the SADD-C as an acceptable and valid method of assessing child symptoms and parent behavior on separation. Findings are discussed with regard to the clinical utility of the SADD-C and strategies to improve compliance. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10