American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Anxiety Disorder Interview Schedule

Adverse Event

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Children’s Global Assessment Scale

Clinical Global Impression - Improvement Scale

Clinical Global Impressions Scale - Severity Scale

Confidence Interval

Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Emotionality-Activity-Sociability Temperament Survey

Fear Survey Schedule for Children - Revised

Intention-to-treat

Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children

Not Applicable

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence

The National Institute of Mental Health

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Pediatric Anxiety Rating Scale

Population, Interventions, Comparisons, Outcomes, Timing, and Setting

Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

Problem Solving Therapy

Revised Children’s Manifest Anxiety Scale

Randomized Controlled Trial

Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders

Spence Children’s Anxiety Scale

Socioeconomic Status

Standardized Mean Difference

Serotonin-Norepinephrine Reuptake Inhibitor

Strength of Evidence

Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory

Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor

State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

Tricyclic Antidepressant