Objectives: The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a widely used screening instrument. The purpose of this study was to evaluate reliability and validity of the Hungarian translation. Methods: The English version of the HADS was translated using the 'forward-backward' procedure. The questionnaire was used in a large scale study of 678 Hungarian cancer patients along with other scre...

In this observational study, direct and indirect (moderator and mediator) relationships between sociodemographic (age, gender, life partner, education level, income and length of treatment) and psychological (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, HADS) variables and satisfaction with hospital care (EORTC INPATSAT32) in adult (advanced cancer) patients were investigated. Study sample consisted ...

Purpose Measurement invariance is an important attribute for the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Most of the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) studies on the HADS adopt the classical maximum likelihood approach. The restrictive assumptions of exact zero cross-loadings and residual correlations in the classical approach can lead to inadequate model fit and biased parameter estimat...

OBJECTIVE To validate the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) for use in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) and to compare the outcome of both screening measures with each other. DESIGN Cross-sectional and between-subjects design. The independent variable was the diagnosis depression by the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Intervie...

BACKGROUND The hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS) is a widely used instrument for evaluating psychological distress from anxiety and depression. HADS has not yet been validated in Ethiopia. The aim of this study was to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Amharic (Ethiopian language) version of HADs among HIV infected patients. METHODS The translated scale was administered t...

The present study explored the psychometric properties, validity and factorial structure of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in healthy and chronically ill Romanian adolescents. The sample consisted of 500 adolescents aged 12 to 16 years (M = 14.2; SD = 1.39) recruited from schools and medical settings. Two additional screening tools were used to test the validity of the measure...

Objective: It is known that neuropathy, neuropathic pain and psychiatric disorders are associated with diabetes mellitus (DM). was aimed to find out whether there a relationship between nerve conduction study findings, pain, depression anxiety.
 
 Material Methods: Type 2 DM patients applied our clinical neurophysiology laboratory September 2021 January 2022 were included in this stud...

INTRODUCTION Psychiatric disorders are common among patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) which may make a psychiatric evaluation appropriate. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) has been recommended internationally for screening. The Common Mental Disorder Questionnaire (CMDQ) is a novel Danish instrument recommended for use in general practice, but it lacks validation. The...

Purpose The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is widely used in adult populations; however, its usefulness with adolescents has been explored less. This study sought to evaluate the reliability, validity, and factor structure of the Chinese version of HADS in a community sample of adolescents residing in Hong Kong. Methods A prospective cohort of 5,857 students recruited from 17 seco...

BACKGROUND Mood disorders are commonly seen in those with cerebrovascular disease. Literature to-date has tended to focus on depression and on patients with stroke, with relatively little known about post-stroke anxiety or mood disorder in those with transient ischaemic attack (TIA). We aimed to describe prevalence of depression and anxiety symptoms in stroke and TIA cohorts and to explore asso...