HADS
Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)
The HADS is an instrument for identifying potential cases of anxiety and depression. It is designed to be simple and quick for patients to complete themselves, enabling health professionals to identify common emotional disorders in hospitalized patients and outpatients.
- Number of questions
- 14 questions
- Estimated duration
- 3 minutes
- Language
- English
- Original name
- Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
- Target audience
- Adults
- Authors
- Zigmond A.S., Snaith R.P (1983)
- Category
- Depression, Anxiety
Preview of the 14 questions
Scoring & interpretation
The scale has 14 scored items. Each item is scored from 0 to 3. 7 questions relate to anxiety (total A) and the other 7 to the depressive dimension (total D), yielding two scores (maximum for each score = 21).
Usage
This tool is not available on Mentaal. To access this questionnaire, please go to the website of the official distributor, Mapi Research Trust, and submit a request on ePROVIDE™
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