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Development and evaluation of the Parenting to Reduce Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (PaRCADS): assessment of parental concordance with guidelines for the prevention of child anxiety and depression.
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- Relationships between parental factors and child anxiety and depressive symptoms in an indicated preventive intervention.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Trial
- The Role of Parent Engagement in a Web-Based Preventive Parenting Intervention for Child Mental Health in Predicting Parenting, Parent and Child Outcomes.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Co-Designing a Digital Coach-Supported Parenting Program for Internalising Problems in Autistic Children.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Article
- Parental Involvement in Child Anxiety and Depression: Exploring the Impact of Delivery Format on Modifiable Parental Factors.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- The Indirect Effects of Fathers' Parenting Style and Parent Emotion Regulation on the Relationship Between Father Self-Efficacy and Children's Mental Health Difficulties.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Embedding Technology-Assisted Parenting Interventions in Real-World Settings to Empower Parents of Children With Adverse Childhood Experiences: Co-Design Study.JMIR formative research · 2024Article
- Investigating the psychometric properties of PaRCADS-Parenting to Reduce Child Anxiety and Depression Scale in a Norwegian sample.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2024Article
- Study protocol of a factorial trial ECHO: optimizing a group-based school intervention for children with emotional problems.BMC psychology · 2021Article
- Using Evaluative Criteria to Review Youth Anxiety Measures, Part II: Parent-Report.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Article
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Abstract
backgroundInvolving parents in the prevention of mental health problems in children is prudent given their fundamental role in supporting their child's development. However, few measures encapsulate the range of risk and protective factors for child anxiety and depression that parents can potentially modify. The
methodsIn Study 1, 355 parents of children 8-11 years old across Australia completed the PaRCADS and measures of parenting, general family functioning, child anxiety and depressive symptoms, and parent and child health-related quality of life. Their children completed measures of parenting, anxiety and depressive symptoms, and health-related quality of life. In Study 2, six subject-experts independently evaluated the PaRCADS items for item-objective congruence and item-relevance. Item analysis was conducted by examining item-total point-biserial correlation, difficulty index,
resultsFour items were removed to yield a 79-item, 10-subscale PaRCADS. Reliability estimates for the subscale and total score range from .74 to .94. Convergent validity was indicated by moderate to strong correlations with other parenting and family functioning measures, and discriminant validity was supported by small to moderate correlations with a measure of parents' health-related quality of life. Higher scores on the PaRCADS were associated with fewer anxiety and depressive symptoms and better health-related quality of life in the child. PaRCADS total score was associated with parental age, parent reported child's history of mental health diagnosis and child's current mental health problem. DISCUSSION: Results showed that the PaRCADS demonstrates adequate psychometric properties that provide initial support for its use as a measure of parenting risk and protective factors for child anxiety and depression. The scale may be used for intervention and evaluative purposes in preventive programs and research.
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