PMID- 26349070
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20160706
LR  - 20150929
IS  - 1536-7312 (Electronic)
IS  - 0196-206X (Linking)
VI  - 36
IP  - 8
DP  - 2015 Oct
TI  - Brief Measures to Screen for Social Anxiety in Adolescents.
PG  - 562-8
LID - 10.1097/DBP.0000000000000213 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVE: Social anxiety disorder (SAD) in adolescents is considerably 
      underdetected and undertreated despite the availability of efficacious 
      treatments. Our main study objective was to examine brief, valid, and reliable 
      screening measures for adolescent social anxiety, and to then conduct diagnostic 
      interviews to evaluate the measures' ability to identify adolescents with SAD. 
      METHODS: We examined 7 brief and valid social anxiety measures and compared their 
      diagnostic accuracy with diagnoses established by a semistructured interview. The 
      sample included 421 Spanish adolescents with and 613 without a clinical diagnosis 
      of SAD. RESULTS: Data revealed that short social anxiety measures are accurate in 
      detecting Spanish-speaking socially anxious adolescents. All questionnaires 
      showed good or excellent discriminating ability, with the Social Anxiety Scale 
      for Adolescents (SAS-A) and the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory-Brief 
      (SPAI-B) having the best sensitivity and specificity values, respectively. 
      Excellent areas under the receiver operating characteristic curves were found for 
      most measures, except for the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale for Children and 
      Adolescents and the Mini-Social Phobia Inventory, which had good discriminatory 
      ability. There was little statistical difference in the ability of the brief 
      social anxiety measures to identify cases accurately, although the SPAI-B cutoff 
      score yielded the best balance between sensitivity and specificity and the 
      highest Youden Index. CONCLUSION: Overall, results suggest that brief measures 
      for social anxiety symptoms can be effective in detecting SAD in Spanish-speaking 
      adolescents. Depending on the purpose of the study, SAS-A may be especially 
      useful for reducing false negatives and the SPAI-B for false positives.
FAU - Garcia-Lopez, Luis J
AU  - Garcia-Lopez LJ
AD  - *Department of Psychology, Division of Clinical Psychology, Universidad de Jaen, 
      Jaen, Spain; daggerDepartment of Statistics and Operational Research, Universidad de 
      Jaen, Linares, Spain; double daggerDepartment of Psychology, University of Central Florida, 
      Orlando, FL;  section signDepartment of Psychology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL.
FAU - Saez-Castillo, Antonio J
AU  - Saez-Castillo AJ
FAU - Beidel, Deborah
AU  - Beidel D
FAU - La Greca, Annette M
AU  - La Greca AM
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - J Dev Behav Pediatr
JT  - Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP
JID - 8006933
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Child
MH  - Female
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Phobic Disorders/*diagnosis
MH  - Psychiatric Status Rating Scales/*standards
MH  - Psychometrics/*instrumentation
MH  - Sensitivity and Specificity
EDAT- 2015/09/09 06:00
MHDA- 2016/07/07 06:00
CRDT- 2015/09/09 06:00
PHST- 2015/09/09 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2015/09/09 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/07/07 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1097/DBP.0000000000000213 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2015 Oct;36(8):562-8. doi: 10.1097/DBP.0000000000000213.