Validity and reliability of the Amharic version Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS-25) in pediatric oncology
Tenaw Gualu Melesse, Janita Pak Chun Chau, William Ho Cheung Li, Kai Chow Choi, Mulugeta Ayalew Yimer, Abdulkadir Mohamedsaid Gidey · 2026
Read Validity and reliability of the Amharic version Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS-25) in pediatric oncology by Tenaw Gualu Melesse, Janita Pak Chun Chau, William Ho Cheung Li, Kai Chow Choi, Mulugeta Ayalew Yimer, Abdulkadir Mohamedsaid Gidey (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13491881.txt.
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Melesse and co-authors report a 2026 validation study of an Amharic translation of the RCADS-25, a 25-item questionnaire that screens children for anxiety and depression. The team gave the translated scale to 142 children aged 8 to 18 who were receiving cancer care in Ethiopia. They checked whether the questions held together consistently, whether scores stayed stable over time, and whether results matched a separate quality-of-life measure.
Internal consistency was very high, with alpha values around 0.95 for the anxiety items and slightly higher for the full scale when the authors combined both parts. Repeat testing also proved stable, and scores correlated strongly, in the expected negative direction, with the quality-of-life inventory. Statistical modelling supported the original two-part structure, with anxiety and depression as separate factors. The authors recommend wider testing in larger and more varied Ethiopian samples before routine use.
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| CREATOR | Tenaw Gualu Melesse, Janita Pak Chun Chau, William Ho Cheung Li, Kai Chow Choi, Mulugeta Ayalew Yimer, Abdulkadir Mohamedsaid Gidey |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 30 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |