Why the study?
Is the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale a reliable and valid instrument for detecting depression and anxiety in hospital medical outpatient clinics?
Population
Patients in a hospital medical outpatient clinic
Design
Other
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Supports HADS screening for emotional disorders in medical outpatients; leaves open prospective validation before routine adoption.
Is the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale a reliable and valid instrument for detecting depression and anxiety in hospital medical outpatient clinics?
The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is introduced as a reliable and valid tool for detecting and quantifying emotional disorders in medical outpatients.
Zigmond et al. (1983) studied this question.
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