Table 8.

Correlations between plasma oxytocin level changes in children with SAD and total RCADS-CV, SAAS-CF score, and total ECR-RC score changes, and between plasma oxytocin level changes in mothers of children with SAD and ASAQ, HDRS, and HARS score changes

SAD	Child plasma oxytocin level change	Maternal plasma oxytocin level change
RCADS-CV total score change		ASAQ score change
r	0.525	r	−0.010
p a	0.012*	p a	0.965
SAAS-CF total score change		HDRS score change
r	0.398	r	−0.173
p a	0.066	p a	0.453
ECR-RC total score change		HARS total score change
r	0.135	r	−0.057
p a	0.551	p a	0.807

SAD, separation anxiety disorder; RCADS-CV, Revised Children’s Anxiety and Depression Scale-Child Version; SAAS-CF, Separation Anxiety Assessment Scale-Children’s Forms; ECR-RC (attachment), Inventory of Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised for children and adolescents-Middle Childhood Scale; ASAQ, Adult Separation Anxiety Questionnaire; HDRS, Hamilton Depression Rating Scale; HARS, Hamilton Anxiety Rating Scale; r, correlation coefficient.

^aSpearman correlation analysis pvalue.

*p < 0.05.