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

By I. Bjelland, A. Dahl, T. T. Haug, D. Neckelmann. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2002

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Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, General Health Professions

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Citations in the corpus

Comparative validity of three screening questionnaires for DSM-IV depressive disorders and physicians' diagnoses. (2004, methodology): “Since then, however, optimal balance between sensitivity and specificity was achieved most frequently at a cut-off score of z 8 (Bjelland et al., 2002).”
The Psychological Burden of Skin Diseases: A Cross-Sectional Multicenter Study among Dermatological Out-Patients in 13 European Countries (2014, methodology): “…variance of 30% of the subscales of depression and anxiety, the sensitivity and specificity for the anxiety and depression subscales are high, which allows separation of anxiety disorder from depression (Mykletun et al., 2001; Bjelland et al., 2002; Picardi et al., 2005; Breeman et al., 2014).”
Depression, anxiety and somatization in primary care: syndrome overlap and functional impairment. (2008, neutral): “intercorrelated [15–17].”
An ultra-brief screening scale for anxiety and depression: the PHQ-4. (2009, methodology): “Despite the high correlation between depression and anxiety measures, 27,28 factor analysis conﬁrmed that the Anxiety and Depression subscales of the PHQ–4 reﬂect two separate dimensions.”
Revisión de estudios de la Escala de Ansiedad y Depresión Hospitalaria (HAD) en muestras españolas (2015, background): “Esta variabilidad de los puntos de corte no es exclusiva de la muestra española y como citábamos en la introducción varias las revisiones señalan esta cuestión (Bjelland et al., 2002; Brennan et al., 2009; Hinz y Brähler, 2011; Morse et al., 2005).”
Suicidal Behavior as a Cry of Pain: Test of a Psychological Model (2003, background): “Both sub-scales are reliable and valid (Bjelland, Dahl, Haug et al., 2002).”
The relationship between addictive use of social media and video games and symptoms of psychiatric disorders: A large-scale cross-sectional study. (2016, methodology): “The HADS has shown good validity in clinical populations as well as in the general population (e.g., Bjelland et al., 2002).”
An introduction to the Rasch measurement model: an example using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). (2007, background): “Bjelland et al. (2002) consistently found, in the 19 studies they reviewed, that this item had relatively low loadings on the anxiety factor (less than .6) and relatively high loadings on the depression factor (greater than .45).”
A validation study of the hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS) in a Spanish population. (2003, background): “The questionnaire possesses good internal consistency and external validity, with favorable sensitivity and specificity, with similar or better statistics than previous studies using the original English version of the HADS [28].”
Major depression. (2014, background): “Alternative diagnostic schemes have been proposed that substitute or ignore the somatic symptoms of depression in the presence of medical illness.(55,56) But, the more traditional criteria remain widely used even under such circumstances.”
Measures of depression and depressive symptoms: Beck Depression Inventory‐II (BDI‐II), Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES‐D), Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and Patient Health Questionnaire‐9 (PHQ‐9) (2011, background): “psychological distress, to differentiate the symptoms of depression and anxiety, or to examine the impact of cognition on depression or anxiety (47).”