The separation anxiety daily diary: Child version: Feasibility and psychometric properties

Jennifer L. Allen; Judith Blatter-Meunier; Antonia Ursprung; Silvia Schneider

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The separation anxiety daily diary: Child version: Feasibility and psychometric properties

Jennifer L. Allen, Judith Blatter-Meunier, Antonia Ursprung, Silvia Schneider

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Abstract

This report describes the feasibility and psychometric properties of the child version of the Separation Anxiety Daily Diary (SADD-C) in 125 children (ages 7- 14 years) from German-speaking areas of Switzerland. Children with separation anxiety disorder (SAD; n = 58), "other'' anxiety disorders (n = 36), and healthy controls (n = 31) recorded the frequency of parent-child separations, along with associated anxiety, thoughts, reactions and subsequent parental responses. Compliance rates were modest, consistent with past research on self-report diaries with anxious children. The SADD-C was better at discriminating children with SAD from controls than "other anxious'' children. The SADD-C demonstrated good convergent validity with maternal and child selfreported anxiety (Revised Child Manifest Anxiety Scale, Separation Anxiety Inventory) and perceived quality of life (Inventory for Quality of Life in Children and Adolescents). Results provide support for the SADD-C as an acceptable and valid method of assessing child symptoms and parent behavior on separation. Findings are discussed with regard to the clinical utility of the SADD-C and strategies to improve compliance.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	649-662
Number of pages	14
Journal	Child Psychiatry and Human Development
Volume	41
Issue number	6
Early online date	8 Jul 2010
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-010-0194-1
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2010

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Acknowledgments This study was supported by grant PP001-68701; 105314-116517/1, ‘‘Etiology and Psychological Treatment of Separation Anxiety Disorder in Childhood,’’ awarded to Silvia Schneider by the Swiss National Science Foundation. We appreciate the participants in this study, as well as the research assistants and graduate students on the TAFF project at the University of Basel for their assistance in data collection and management. The authors would like to acknowledge the assistance of Prof. Dr. Hans Christoph Steinhausen (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zürich). We also thank Dr. Andrea Meyer and Terry Lewin for their assistance with the statistical analyses.

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Assessment
Children
Diaries
Self-monitoring
Separation anxiety disorder

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Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Psychiatry and Mental health

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