florida_twins_behavior_rcads

Name: florida_twins_behavior_rcads
Creator: Item Response Warehouse
Published: 2026-09-19
License: CC BY 4.0

208,996 responses from 1,387 respondents to 94 items.

About this table

Description	The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) is a clinical tool used to assess dimensions of anxiety and depression.
Reference	Schatschneider, C., Lonigan, C., & Taylor, J. E. (2021). Behavior and Environment Survey Codebook. LDbase. http://ldbase.org/documents/c4669c5b-9853-45be-a33f-9dff7102de20
Licence	CC BY 4.0
Source data	https://ldbase.org/documents/c4669c5b-9853-45be-a33f-9dff7102de20

age range	Child (<18y)
child age (for child-focused studies)	Child (6-12y), Adolescent (12-18y)
sample	Educational, Representative, Targeted/specific
construct type	Affective/mental health
measurement tool	Survey/questionnaire
item format	Likert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)	eng
construct name	Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS)

This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.

Instrument	The Revised Child Anxiety and Depression Scale (RCADS) is a clinical tool used to assess dimensions of anxiety and depression.
Mean words per item	10.862
Mean characters per item	54.926
Mean characters per response	6.250
Flesch-Kincaid grade level	3.618

iditemresp

Or load it directly in R or Python:

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("florida_twins_behavior_rcads")

# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("florida_twins_behavior_rcads")

IRW version	v393
Redivis dataset	item_response_warehouse v53.0
Redivis dataset DOI	10.57761/4g08-xt41
Manifest pin for this IRW version	v53.0
Metadata source	irw_meta v23.0