Psychometric properties of the Youth Anxiety Measure for DSM-5, Part I (YAM-5-I) in a community sample of Spanish-speaking adolescents.
BACKGROUND
Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders in adolescence. There is a need for brief screening tools to identify adolescents at risk for anxiety disorders. The Youth Anxiety Measure for DSM-5 has been recently developed to assess youths' anxiety symptoms in terms of the current classification system. The goal of this study is to provide a first test of its psychometric properties in a community sample of adolescents in Spain.


METHODS
The sample consisted of 505 13- to 17-year-old adolescents who completed Part I of the YAM-5 (YAM-5-I), which measures symptoms of the major anxiety disorders.


RESULTS
Data indicated that the YAM-5-I displays appropriate internal consistency reliability. In addition, support was also found for the construct validity of the measure: most items loaded on a factor that represented the hypothesized anxiety syndromes, although it should also be noted that some items exhibited issues and therefore had to be discarded.


LIMITATIONS
Cross-cultural and trans-national studies are needed to determine psychometric properties of scale across languages and cultures.


CONCLUSIONS
Our findings suggest that the YAM-5-I has satisfactory psychometric properties, which indicates that it can be used as a screening tool in Spanish-speaking adolescents from the general population.
['Garcia-Lopez|Luis-Joaquin|LJ|', 'Saez-Castillo|Antonio J|AJ|', 'Fuentes-Rodriguez|Gema|G|']
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Youth Anxiety Measure for DSM-5 Adolescence Assessment Anxiety disorders symptoms