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

Frances J Wren1, Eric A Berg1, Lynda A Heiden1

  • 1Drs. Wren and Heiden, Mr. Berg, Ms. Ohlson, and Ms. Kinnamon are with the Divisions of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA; Dr. Bernal is with Kaiser Permanente Northern California, San Jose; Drs. Bridge and Birmaher are with the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh; and Dr. Heiden is with the Department of Psychology, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA.

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