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Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
  • Basic Information
  • Detailed Information
  • Domains
  • Psychometrics

Basic Information

Abbreviated name
HADS
Full name
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
Items ?
The number of questions in the survey
10
Short description
Screening instrument for depression and anxiety in non-psychiatry settings, validated in primary care samples.
PCCC or QoL? ?
This compendium contains patient-reported measures that are either designed to specifically measure aspects of Person Centred Co-Ordinated Care (P3C), or alternatively tools that are designed to measure some aspect of Quality of Life (QoL) or Health Related Quality of Life (hrQoL). All the measures in this compendium have been broadly categorised into one of those two concepts.
Other
Main Domains Measured ?
This is the key domains that the measure is targeting.
Depression and Anxiety specific - symptoms
Type of measure ?
The measures in this compendium can take a variety of forms. Generally, they will be either Patient Reported Outcome Measure (PROM) or Patient Reported Experience Measure (PREM). However, we have also included a few measures that are completed by proxy-individual (PROXY), which are useful in instances where the respondent cannot answer directly (e.g. dementia or end of life). Sometimes, these measures can even be a composite of these types, and target both experiences and outcomes – we have labelled these measures “PROEMs”.
PROM
Respondent ?
The person that fills in the questionnaire - e.g. patient, Health Care Professional, or proxy (normally a carer or family member)
Patients
Copy of questionnaire
www.svri.org/sites/default/files/attachments/2016-01-13/HADS.pdf

Detailed Information

Year developed ?
The year in which the measure was first published.
1983
Country developed in ?
The main country[s] in which the measure was first developed.
UK
Original publication ?
The publication in which the measure was originally published.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1983.tb09716.x/abstract
Target condition ?
The measures can be either generic or disease specific (e.g. Diabetes, Heart Failure)
Mental Health
Main context tested in ?
The main context in which the measure has been developed and used (E.g. Hopital, General Practice etc).
Outpatient clinic
Main countries used in ?
The main countries in which the measure has been developed and used.
UK
Target age ?
e.g. Adults, Children, Elderly
Adults
Main uses of measure ?
The context in which the measure is most often used – e.g. clinical trials; national surveys.
For detecting states of depression and anxiety in the setting of an hospital medical outpatient clinic.
Used in UK? ?
Whether the instrument has been tested and validated within a UK healthcare context.
Yes
Language
English

Domains

Domain description
Depression and Anxiety specific - symptoms

Psychometrics

Brief description ?
A brief description of the initially reported psychometric properties of the measure.
Found to be a reliable instrument for detecting states of depression and anxiety in the setting of an hospital medical outpatient clinic. The anxiety and depressive subscales are also valid measures of severity of the emotional disorder.