Why the HADS is still important: reply to Coyne & van Sonderen.

No further research needed: abandoning the Hospital and Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS).

Cosco and colleagues [this issue] provide a well done and transparently reported systematic review of the Hospital and Anxiety Depression Scale (HADS) literature of the past decade. They conclude that the underlying structure of the HADS is inconsistent across samples and highly dependent on the statistical methods used to establish that structure. The implication is that the HADS is not a depe...

Correction: Ineffectiveness of Reverse Wording of Questionnaire Items: Let’s Learn from Cows in the Rain

OBJECTIVE We examined the effectiveness of reverse worded items as a means of reducing or preventing response bias. We first distinguished between several types of response bias that are often confused in literature. We next developed arguments why reversing items is probably never a good way to address response bias. We proposed testing whether reverse wording affects response bias with item-l...

University of Groningen The Effect of Rate Control on Quality of Life in Patients With Permanent Atrial Fibrillation Data From the RACE II (Rate Control Efficacy in Permanent Atrial Fibrillation II) Study

Citation for published version (APA): Groenveld, H. F., Crijns, H. J. G. M., Van den Berg, M. P., van Sonderen, E., Alings, A. M., Tijssen, J. G. P., ... Van Gelder, I. C. (2011). The Effect of Rate Control on Quality of Life in Patients With Permanent Atrial Fibrillation Data From the RACE II (Rate Control Efficacy in Permanent Atrial Fibrillation II) Study. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ...

Responsiveness and validity of 3 outcome measures of motor function after stroke rehabilitation.

The Association between Depression and vitamin D level with disease activity in patient with rheumatoid arthritis

Introduction: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic rheumatologic disease, affecting different aspects of patient life. Although several studies have reported a higher rate of depression among patients with RA, there is still controversy over the underlying risk factors and probable covariates of depression in these individuals. The present study investigated the relationship between disease a...