Rapid mental health screening in conflict zones: a translation and cross-cultural adaptation into Arabic of the shortened Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS-25)

Table 2 Reliability and item level statistics for RCADS25-Arabic

Reliability	Scale	Mean	Items	α	α^b
N = 250	Anxiety	16.8 (8.3)	15	.76	.72
N = 250	Depression	11.3 (6.1)	10	.71	–
N = 250	Internalizing	28.2 (13.5)	25	.85	.83
Scale	Item number in original RCADS-25	Factor loading (SE)^c	Corrected item-total correlation^c	Cronbach’s alpha if item deleted^c
Anxiety	2	.39 (.06)^§	.30	.75
	3	.40 (.06) ^§	.32	.75
	5	.44 (.06) ^§	.28	.76
	6	.46 (.06) ^§	.30	.75
	7	.48 (.05) ^§	.32	.75
	9	.56 (.05) ^§	.34	.75
	11	.58 (.05) ^§	.33	.75
	12^a	.62 (.04) ^§	.24	.76
	14	.57 (.05) ^§	.40	.75
	17†	.49 (.06) ^§	.43	.74
	18	.38 (.06) ^§	.41	.74
	20	.46 (.05) ^§	.49	.74
	22	.59 (.05) ^§	.48	.74
	23^a	.62 (.04) ^§	.44	.74
	25	.63 (.04) ^§	.39	.75
Depression	1	.38 (.06) ^§	.37	.69
	4	.40 (.06) ^§	.37	.69
	8	.34 (.06) ^§	.28	.70
	10	.64 (.04) ^§	.34	.69
	13	.62 (.04) ^§	.31	.70
	15	.48 (.05) ^§	.42	.68
	16	.47 (.06) ^§	.39	.68
	19	.44 (.06) ^§	.40	.68
	21	.56 (.05) ^§	.39	.68
	24	.53 (.05) ^§	.42	.68

α = Cronbach’s alpha. ^aOCD items, ^bOCD items removed
§Significant at p < 0.001. ^cFactor loadings, item-total correlations and Cronbach’s alpha if item deleted, derived from two-factor model/sub-scales and includes OCD items

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