Table 1.

5-item Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders, Child Version. (SCARED-C)²¹.

SCARED (Child Version)
Directions: Below is a list of sentences that describes how people feel. Read each phrase and decide if it is “Not true or hardly ever true” or “Somewhat true or sometimes true” or “Very true or often true” for you. Then for each sentence, fill in one circle that corresponds to the response that seems to describe you for the last 3 months.
	Not true or hardly ever true	Somewhat true or sometimes true	Very true or often true
I am shy.	0	1	2
People tell me that I worry too much.	0	1	2
I am scared to go to school.	0	1	2
I get really frightened for no reason at all.	0	1	2
I am afraid to be alone in the house.	0	1	2

Note. Developed by Boris Birmaher, M.D., Suneeta Khetarpal, M.D., Marlane Cully, M.Ed., David Brent M.D., and Sandra McKenzie, Ph.D., Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh. (10/95). E-mail: birmaherb@msx.upmc.edu