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The hospital anxiety and depression rating scale: A cross-sectional study of psychometrics and case finding abilities in general practice

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Olssøn, Ingrid, Mykletun, Arnstein, Dahl, Alv A·2005·BMC Psychiatry
DOI 10.1186/1471-244x-5-46
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Background: General practitioners' (GPs) diagnostic skills lead to underidentification of generalized anxiety disorders (GAD) and major depressive episodes (MDE). Supplement of brief questionnaires could improve the diagnostic accuracy of GPs for these common mental disorders. The aims of this study were to examine the usefulness of The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Rating Scale (HADS) for GPs by: 1) Examining its psychometrics in the GPs' setting; 2) Testing its case-finding properties compared to patient-rated GAD and MDE (DSM-IV); and 3) Comparing its case finding abilities to that of the GPs using Clinical Global Impression-Severity (CGI-S) rating. Methods: In a cross-sectional survey study 1,781 patients in three consecutive days in September 2001 attended 141 GPs geographically spread in Norway. Sensitivity, specificity, optimal cut off score, and Area under the curve (AUC) for the HADS and the CGI-S were calculated with Generalized Anxiety Questionnaire (GAS-Q) as reference standard for GAD, and Depression Screening Questionnaire (DSQ) for MDE. Results: The HADS-A had optimal cut off ≥8 (sensitivity 0.89, specificity 0.75), AUC 0.88 and 76% of patients were correctly classified in relation to GAD. The HADS-D had by optimal cut off ≥8 (sensitivity 0.80 and specificity 0.88) AUC 0.93 and 87% of the patients were correctly classified in relation to MDE. Proportions of the total correctly classified at the CGI-S optimal cut-off ≥3 were 83% of patients for GAD and 81% for MDE. Conclusion: The results indicate that addition of the patients' HADS scores to GPs' information could improve their diagnostic accuracy of GAD and MDE.

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Authors
Olssøn, I., Mykletun, A., & Dahl, A. A.
Venue
BMC Psychiatry
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2005-12
Volume
5
Issue
1
Pages
46-46
ISSN
1471-244X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1186/1471-244x-5-46
OpenAlex
W1561650855
Cited by
580
References
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FWCI
14.16
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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