The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a brief self-report measure of anxiety and depression symptoms. This study examined the internal consistency and factor structure of the HADS among Veterans in a polytrauma/traumatic brain injury clinic. The sample consisted of 312 Veterans. A confirmatory factor analysis of the depression and anxiety subscales showed, not surprisingly, that t...

An order-of-magnitude estimate for the incidence of high-amplitude δ Scuti-type variable stars (HADS) in the δ Scuti area of the H-R diagram is calculated. Using a model for the stellar distribution in the Milky Way, we calculate the number of stars that are expected to fall in the δ Scuti area of the H-R diagram within the magnitude range and sky coverage of the ROTSE Survey for Variables I (R...

Objectives The optimal tool for identifying postsroke depression (PSD) is yet to be identified. In the present study, we rely on the depression subscale of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS-D) as a meaningful criterion to investigate the psychometric properties of the HRQOLISP-E, a new context-specific screening tool for PSD developed from a large cross-cultural sample. Methods ...

BACKGROUND Medical patients are often screened for distress in the clinic using a questionnaire such as the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) while awaiting their consultation. However, might the context of the clinic artificially inflate the distress score ? To address this question we aimed to determine whether those who scored high on the HADS in the clinic remained high scorers w...

BACKGROUND We wanted to use a Punjabi version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) to enable non-English speaking patients to participate in a clinical trial. The aim of the study was to translate and validate the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale into Punjabi. METHODS The HADS was translated into Punjabi by a multidisciplinary team, verified against the original version, a...

INTRODUCTION This study was designed to compare an antidepressant medication, citalopram, with psychological training in hemodialysis patients with symptoms of anxiety and depression. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total number of 44 hemodialysis patients scored 8 and more on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) were randomly allocated to two groups to receive citalopram, 20 mg/d, for 3 ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the validity and utility of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HAM-D), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) as screening tools for depression after severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). METHODS Forty-six consecutive survivors of severe TBI were evaluated at a median of 15 months after injury. Receiver operating character...

The goal of this study is to investigate the association between oxidative stress and telomere length shortening in the comorbid depression and diabetes. Therefore, 71 patients with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes (T2D) and 52 subjects with normal glycemic level (control, Ctrl) were enrolled. Depressive status was identified with the Depression Subscale of Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the independent effects of positive and negative affect items on mortality in consecutive medical inpatients. METHODS Consecutive general medical inpatients were asked to complete the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) at admission. Prognostic indicators were obtained from patients' records and physicians' ratings. The study end point was mortality from all ca...