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Population-Based Teacher-Rated Assessment of Anxiety Among Canadian Kindergarten Children

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...

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Autores principales: Janus, Magdalena, Ryan, Julia, Pottruff, Molly, Reid-Westoby, Caroline, Brownell, Marni, Bennett, Teresa, Birken, Catherine S., Duku, Eric, Ferro, Mark A., Forer, Barry, Georgiades, Stelios, Gorter, Jan Willem, Guhn, Martin, Maguire, Jonathon, Manson, Heather, Pei, Jacqueline, Santos, Rob, Coplan, Robert J.
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Publicado: Springer US 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8894824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35244815
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10578-022-01332-9
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author Janus, Magdalena
Ryan, Julia
Pottruff, Molly
Reid-Westoby, Caroline
Brownell, Marni
Bennett, Teresa
Birken, Catherine S.
Duku, Eric
Ferro, Mark A.
Forer, Barry
Georgiades, Stelios
Gorter, Jan Willem
Guhn, Martin
Maguire, Jonathon
Manson, Heather
Pei, Jacqueline
Santos, Rob
Coplan, Robert J.
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Ryan, Julia
Pottruff, Molly
Reid-Westoby, Caroline
Brownell, Marni
Bennett, Teresa
Birken, Catherine S.
Duku, Eric
Ferro, Mark A.
Forer, Barry
Georgiades, Stelios
Gorter, Jan Willem
Guhn, Martin
Maguire, Jonathon
Manson, Heather
Pei, Jacqueline
Santos, Rob
Coplan, Robert J.
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description 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 who exhibited “few to none” anxious behaviors, highly anxious children were more likely to be male, have English/French as a second language, and have a special needs designation. Furthermore, compared with their less anxious peers, highly anxious children had between 3.5 and 6.1 higher odds of scoring below the 10(th) percentile cut-off in physical, social, language/cognitive and communication domains. Our findings suggest that anxious behaviors are related to children’s overall health and illustrate the consistency and extensiveness of anxiety at a very young age among Canadian children. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10578-022-01332-9.
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spelling pubmed-88948242022-03-04 Population-Based Teacher-Rated Assessment of Anxiety Among Canadian Kindergarten Children Janus, Magdalena Ryan, Julia Pottruff, Molly Reid-Westoby, Caroline Brownell, Marni Bennett, Teresa Birken, Catherine S. Duku, Eric Ferro, Mark A. Forer, Barry Georgiades, Stelios Gorter, Jan Willem Guhn, Martin Maguire, Jonathon Manson, Heather Pei, Jacqueline Santos, Rob Coplan, Robert J. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev Original Article 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 who exhibited “few to none” anxious behaviors, highly anxious children were more likely to be male, have English/French as a second language, and have a special needs designation. Furthermore, compared with their less anxious peers, highly anxious children had between 3.5 and 6.1 higher odds of scoring below the 10(th) percentile cut-off in physical, social, language/cognitive and communication domains. Our findings suggest that anxious behaviors are related to children’s overall health and illustrate the consistency and extensiveness of anxiety at a very young age among Canadian children. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10578-022-01332-9. Springer US 2022-03-04 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC8894824/ /pubmed/35244815 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10578-022-01332-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Janus, Magdalena
Ryan, Julia
Pottruff, Molly
Reid-Westoby, Caroline
Brownell, Marni
Bennett, Teresa
Birken, Catherine S.
Duku, Eric
Ferro, Mark A.
Forer, Barry
Georgiades, Stelios
Gorter, Jan Willem
Guhn, Martin
Maguire, Jonathon
Manson, Heather
Pei, Jacqueline
Santos, Rob
Coplan, Robert J.
Population-Based Teacher-Rated Assessment of Anxiety Among Canadian Kindergarten Children
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8894824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35244815
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10578-022-01332-9
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