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International experiences with the hospital anxiety and depression scale- a review of validation data and clinical results

C. Herrmann
- 01 Jan 1997 - 
- Vol. 42, Iss: 1, pp 17-41
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The HADS gives clinically meaningful results as a psychological screening tool, in clinical group comparisons and in correlational studies with several aspects of disease and quality of life.
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This article is published in Journal of Psychosomatic Research.The article was published on 1997-01-01. It has received 2791 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale & Anxiety.

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The validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale: An updated literature review

TL;DR: HADS was found to perform well in assessing the symptom severity and caseness of anxiety disorders and depression in both somatic, psychiatric and primary care patients and in the general population.
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The hospital anxiety and depression scale.

TL;DR: The Hospital Anxiety And Depression Scale (HADS) as discussed by the authors was designed to assess the contribution of mood disorder, especially anxiety and depression, in order to understand the experience of suffering in the setting of medical practice.
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Detecting and monitoring depression with a two-item questionnaire (PHQ-2).

TL;DR: The PHQ-2 appears promising as a brief multipurpose measure for detecting depression, grading its severity, and monitoring outcomes over time, and proved sensitive to change.
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Comparative validity of three screening questionnaires for DSM-IV depressive disorders and physicians' diagnoses.

TL;DR: All three questionnaires performed well in depression screening, but significant differences in criterion validity existed; these results may be helpful in the selection of questionnaires and cut-off points.
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Hospital Anxiety and Depression (HAD) scale: factor structure, item analyses and internal consistency in a large population.

TL;DR: Based on data from a large population, the basic psychometric properties of the HAD scale as a self-rating instrument should be considered as quite good in terms of factor structure, intercorrelation, homogeneity and internal consistency.
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The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the introduction of the scales into general hospital practice would facilitate the large task of detection and management of emotional disorder in patients under investigation and treatment in medical and surgical departments.
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Psychological outcomes of different treatment policies in women with early breast cancer outside a clinical trial.

TL;DR: There is still no evidence that women with early breast cancer who undergo breast conservation surgery have less psychiatric morbidity after treatment than those who undergo mastectomy, and patients treated by surgeons who offered a choice showing less depression than those treated by other surgeons.
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The factor structure and factor stability of the hospital anxiety and depression scale in patients with cancer.

TL;DR: Support is provided for the use of the separate subscales of the HAD in studies of emotional disturbance in cancer patients by two distinct, but correlated, factors emerged which corresponded to the questionnaire's anxiety and depression subscales.
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A Population-Based Assessment of the Impact and Burden of Caregiving for Long-term Stroke Survivors

TL;DR: In this population of stroke survivors with residual handicap, the high level of emotional distress among caregivers of stroke patients suggests that many caregivers have unmet needs.
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Screening for adjustment disorders and major depressive disorders in cancer in-patients.

TL;DR: HADS appears in this study to be a simple, sensitive and specific tool for screening for psychiatric disorders in an oncology in-patient population.
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