Table 2.

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

SCARED (Parent Version)
Directions: Below is a list of statements that describes how people feel. Read each statement carefully and decide if it is “Not true or hardly ever true” or “Somewhat true or sometimes true” or “Very true or often true” for your child. Then for each statement, fill in one circle that corresponds to the response that seems to describe your child for the last 3 months. Please respond to all statements as well as you can, even if some do not seem to concern your child.
	Not true or hardly ever true	Somewhat true or sometimes true	Very true or often true
My child is shy.	0	1	2
People tell me that my child worries too much.	0	1	2
My child is scared to go to school.	0	1	2
My child gets really frightened for no reason at all.	0	1	2
My child is 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