BACKGROUND The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is widely used but evaluation of its psychometric properties has produced equivocal results. Little is known about its structure in non-clinical samples of older people. METHODS We used data from four cohorts in the HALCyon collaborative research program into healthy aging: the Caerphilly Prospective Study, the Hertfordshire Ageing S...

BACKGROUND While it is recognised that depression is prevalent in Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), recent studies have also highlighted significant levels of anxiety in RA patients. This study compared two commonly used scales, the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS) and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), in relation to their measurement range and cut points to consider the rela...

BACKGROUND Despite its popularity, not a definitive word has yet been said about the latent structure of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). The present work is a contribution to this issue: statistically identifying the best tool structure helps in understanding which constructs the tool actually detects. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS Five hundred and twelve Italian consecutive hosp...

PURPOSE To analyze the validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) among Chinese cataract population. METHODS A total of 275 participants with unilateral or bilateral cataract were recruited to complete the Chinese version of HADS. The patients' demographic and ophthalmic characteristics were documented. Rasch analysis was conducted to examine the model fit statistics, the th...

In the widely used Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) most of the items forming the Depression subscale use terms for a pleasant state of mind, whereas most of the items in the Anxiety subscale mention aversive states. Thus the constructs assessed may relate respectively to absence of positive affect and presence of negative affect, rather than to the different sorts of affect intende...

BACKGROUND The study aimed at presenting normative data for both parallel forms of the "Rasch-based Depression Screening (DESC)", to examine its Rasch model conformity and convergent and divergent validity based on a representative sample of the German general population. METHODS The sample was selected with the assistance of a demographic consulting company applying a face to face interview ...

background existence the children with blood diseases in family could cause lots of stress and anxiety for parents, this stress among parents would negative effects on children's disease process and his response to treatment. materials and methods this is a descriptive-analytical study which carried out on 480 parents with children affected to blood disease referring to shafa hospital of a...

background: the relationship of inflammatory cytokines with anxiety and depression has been reported, but their role in diabetic patients has not been fully elucidated. objective: we examined whether an association between prevalence of anxiety and depression in omani type-2 diabetic patients (n=30) and the levels of inflammatory markers such as il-1β, tnf-α, ifn-γ and c-reactive protein (crp) ...

background: the purpose of this study was to compare alexithymia, anxiety, depression and severity of gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders and psychiatric patients. materials and methods: this was a comparative study. study subjects consisted of 210 individuals; 129 patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders (fgid) who referred to the psychos...

backgrounddiabetes type i (dti) is one of the most common endocrine disorders during childhood and adolescents in which has strong impact on physical and emotional development of individuals with family members. we aimed to evaluate of stress, anxiety and depression in parents with dti child compared with parents with healthy child.materials and methodsin this case – control study, 60 parents o...