score_rcmas: score_rcmas: Score data from the Revised Children's Manifest...

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score_rcmas: Score data from the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale

Description

This function scores the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale for total score and the following subscales: Physiological Manifestations, Worry and Oversensitivity, and Fear/Concentration

Usage

score_rcmas(rcmas_data, parID)

Arguments

rcmas_data	a data.frame all items for the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale following the naming conventions described above
parID	(optional) name of participant ID column in intake_data. If included the output dataset will be matched by parID, if not included the output dataset will be in the order of intake_data but will have no participant identifier.

Details

To use this function, the data must be prepared according to the following criteria: 1) The data must include all individual questionnaire items and child grade. If child grade is not included some variables will be exported with NA's. 2) The columns/variables must match the following naming convention: 'rcmas#' where # is the question number (1-37) and child's grade must be labeled 'grade' 3) All questions must have the numeric value for the choice: 0 - No, 1 - Yes

Note, as long as variable names match those listed, the dataset can include other variables

Value

A dataset with a score for the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale

References

Reynolds CR, Richmond BO. What I think and feel: A revised measure of children’s manifest anxiety. Journal of abnormal child psychology. 1978;6(2):271-280. (PubMed)

Reynolds CR, Richmond BO. Factor structure and construct validity of’What I think and feel’: The revised children’s manifest anxiety scale. Journal of personality assessment. 1979;43(3):281-283. (PubMed)

Stallard P, Velleman R, Langsford J, Baldwin S. Coping and psychological distress in children involved in road traffic accidents. British Journal of Clinical Psychology. 2001;40(2):197-208. (PubMed)

See Also

Raw data from Qualtrics was processed using the following script: util_fbs_child_v2dat and util_fbs_child_v2dat_home

Examples

# scoring for the rcmas with IDs
rcmas_score_data <- score_rcmas(rcmas_data, parID = 'ID')

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