PMID- 33682479
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20220524
LR  - 20220621
IS  - 1552-3489 (Electronic)
IS  - 1073-1911 (Linking)
VI  - 29
IP  - 5
DP  - 2022 Jul
TI  - Psychometric Evaluation of the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale for Children 
      (IUSC): Findings From Clinical and Community Samples in Iran.
PG  - 993-1004
LID - 10.1177/1073191121998769 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVE: The present study examined the psychometric properties of a Persian 
      version of the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale for Children (IUSC; Comer et al, 
      2009). METHOD: Participating youth (n = 346) 8 to 18 years of age were 
      nonreferred community youth (n = 279) or youth who met diagnostic criteria for an 
      anxiety disorder (n = 67) and their parents. RESULTS: Across child- and 
      parent-report data, confirmatory factor analysis supported a shortened 12-item 
      version of the IUSC, and the confirmatory factor analysis also confirmed a 
      theory-driven correlated two-factor structure of the IUSC-12. (i.e., 
      prospective/inhibitory IU). Results further supported reliability and validity of 
      parent- and child-reports of the Persian IUSC-12 via evidence of internal 
      consistency, 4-week retest, significant associations with established measures of 
      internalizing problems, and the ability of the measure to reliably distinguish 
      the clinical sample from the community sample. CONCLUSION: Findings demonstrate 
      sound psychometric properties of the Persian version of the IUSC-12 and provide 
      additional support for the reliability and validity of the measure and its use in 
      non-Western cultures. Findings are discussed in terms of implications for 
      assessment, treatment, and study of anxiety and related internalizing problems in 
      Iranian youth.
FAU - Zemestani, Mehdi
AU  - Zemestani M
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-2140-2434
AD  - University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran.
FAU - Didehban, Reza
AU  - Didehban R
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6315-112X
AD  - University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran.
FAU - Comer, Jonathan S
AU  - Comer JS
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-6872-4476
AD  - Florida International University, Miami, FL, USA.
FAU - Kendall, Philip C
AU  - Kendall PC
AD  - Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20210306
PL  - United States
TA  - Assessment
JT  - Assessment
JID - 9431219
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Humans
MH  - Iran
MH  - Prospective Studies
MH  - *Psychometrics
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Uncertainty
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Intolerance of Uncertainty
OT  - adolescents
OT  - anxiety
OT  - child
OT  - transdiagnostic
EDAT- 2021/03/09 06:00
MHDA- 2022/05/25 06:00
CRDT- 2021/03/08 08:41
PHST- 2021/03/09 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2022/05/25 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2021/03/08 08:41 [entrez]
AID - 10.1177/1073191121998769 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Assessment. 2022 Jul;29(5):993-1004. doi: 10.1177/1073191121998769. Epub 2021 Mar 
      6.