Structure, reliability, and validity of the revised child anxiety and depression scale (RCADS) in a multi-ethnic urban sample of Dutch children

Table 1 Internal consistency (Cronbach’s α) and 3 months stability (ICC) of RCADS scales in a multi-ethnic sample of Dutch children aged 8-13 years in the total sample and in each of the ethnic subgroups

Scale	Total sample	Dutch	Turkish	Moroccan	Surinamese/Antillean	Other Western	Other non-Western	ICC
Scale	n = 3601^a	n = 1424^a	n = 299^a	n = 547^a	n = 392^a	n = 352^a	n = 469^a	n = 1019^a
RCADS	0.95	0.95	0.94	0.96	0.94	0.96	0.95	0.86
Anxiety	0.94	0.94	0.93	0.95	0.94	0.95	0.94	0.86
GAD	0.84	0.83	0.82	0.86	0.83	0.86	0.82	0.79
SP	0.86	0.85	0.84	0.88	0.84	0.88	0.85	0.84
SAD	0.75	0.76	0.72	0.78	0.72	0.78	0.70	0.81
PD	0.83	0.82	0.82	0.86	0.82	0.85	0.83	0.79
OCD	0.76	0.77	0.71	0.77	0.71	0.78	0.73	0.80
MDD	0.79	0.79	0.79	0.80	0.72	0.81	0.78	0.82

RCADS = Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale. GAD = Generalized Anxiety Disorder. SP = Social Phobia. SAD = Separation Anxiety Disorder. PD = Panic Disorder. OCD = Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. MDD = Major Depressive Disorder. Other Western = Europe (excluding Turkey), North America, Oceania, Japan, Indonesia (including former Dutch East Indies). Other non-Western = Africa, Latin America, Asia (without Japan and Indonesia). ^aN may vary because of missing values per scale

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