Journal article
Population-Based Teacher-Rated Assessment of Anxiety Among Canadian Kindergarten Children
Abstract
Despite anxiety being a prevalent mental health problem in children, little data exist on the pervasiveness and levels of anxiety symptoms in kindergarteners. Data from the Early Development Instrument, a teacher-completed, population-level measure of child development, were collected across Canada from 2004 to 2015. The final analytic sample consisted of 974,319 children of whom 2.6% were classified as “highly anxious”. Compared to children …
Authors
Janus M; Ryan J; Pottruff M; Reid-Westoby C; Brownell M; Bennett T; Birken CS; Duku E; Ferro MA; Forer B
Journal
Child Psychiatry & Human Development, Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 1309–1320
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
10 2023
DOI
10.1007/s10578-022-01332-9
ISSN
0009-398X