Childhood anxiety in a diverse primary care population: parent-child reports, ethnicity and SCARED factor structure.

Objective: To explore in a multiethnic primary care population the impact of child gender and of race/ethnicity on parent and child reports of school-age anxiety and on the factor structure of the Screen for Childhood Anxiety and Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED).

Method: A consecutive sample of 515 children (8 to <13 years) and their parent presenting for primary care completed self-report (C) and parent-report (P) versions of the SCARED-41.

Results: Neither SCARED scores nor parent-child difference varied significantly with race/ethnicity.