@article{ref1,
title="Assessing fears of preschool children with nighttime fears by a parent version of the fear survey schedule for preschool children",
journal="Israel journal of psychiatry and related sciences",
year="2015",
author="Kushnir, Jonathan and Gothelf, Doron and Sadeh, Avi",
volume="52",
number="1",
pages="61-65",
abstract="BACKGROUND: Although excessive fears are common in preschool children, validated assessment tools for this age are lacking. Our aim was to modify and provide preliminary evidence of the utility of a preschoolers' fear screening tool, a parent-reported Fear Survey Schedule for Preschool Children (FSS-PC). <br><br>METHODS: 109 Israeli preschool children (aged 4-6 years) with chronic night time fears (NF) and 30 healthy children (controls) participated. The FSS-PC analysis included: 1) internal reliability, 2) correlations between FSS-PC scores and Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) measures, 3) differences between NF and a comparison sample of FSS-PC scores, and 4) FSS-PC sensitivity in detecting change in NF following an intervention for NF. <br><br>RESULTS: There were low-to-medium positive correlations between the FSS-PC scores and several internalizing scales of the CBCL measures. FSS-PC scores in the NF group were significantly higher than the control children's score. FSS-PC scores had adequate internal reliability and were also sensitive for detecting significant changes in fear levels following behavioral interventions. LIMITATIONS: Unique cultural and environmental circumstances and specific study group. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: This new version of the FSS-PC may provide clinicians with a novel and useful screening tool for early assessment of fear- and anxiety-related phenomena of preschool children.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0333-7308",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}