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A validation study of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in a large sample of French employees
BACKGROUND: The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a questionnaire widely used for detecting anxiety and depressive disorders. It is used extensively in France, but has never been the subject of a full study in a population at work. The objectives of this study were to present some psyc...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4476305/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25511175 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-014-0354-0 |
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description | BACKGROUND: The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a questionnaire widely used for detecting anxiety and depressive disorders. It is used extensively in France, but has never been the subject of a full study in a population at work. The objectives of this study were to present some psychometric properties of the HADS on a large sample of French employees. METHOD: The HADS questionnaire was given to salaried employees at 19 major French companies as part of their biennial occupational medical examination. In 2011, 20992 employees filled in the questionnaire. HADS’s structure was studied first by exploratory, then confirmatory factorial analyses. RESULTS: The model selected was the original two-factor structure. The two subscales showed good internal consistency. Women scored higher than the men for anxiety and depression; the scores increased with age; engineers and managers had lower average scores than other occupational status (blue- or white-collar workers and technicians). CONCLUSION: The results of the analyses are consistent with those in literature relating to other populations studied in other countries. The HADS questionnaire is pertinent for detecting symptoms of anxiety and depression in a population of people at work. |
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spelling | pubmed-44763052015-06-23 A validation study of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in a large sample of French employees Bocéréan, Christine Dupret, Emilie BMC Psychiatry Research Article BACKGROUND: The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a questionnaire widely used for detecting anxiety and depressive disorders. It is used extensively in France, but has never been the subject of a full study in a population at work. The objectives of this study were to present some psychometric properties of the HADS on a large sample of French employees. METHOD: The HADS questionnaire was given to salaried employees at 19 major French companies as part of their biennial occupational medical examination. In 2011, 20992 employees filled in the questionnaire. HADS’s structure was studied first by exploratory, then confirmatory factorial analyses. RESULTS: The model selected was the original two-factor structure. The two subscales showed good internal consistency. Women scored higher than the men for anxiety and depression; the scores increased with age; engineers and managers had lower average scores than other occupational status (blue- or white-collar workers and technicians). CONCLUSION: The results of the analyses are consistent with those in literature relating to other populations studied in other countries. The HADS questionnaire is pertinent for detecting symptoms of anxiety and depression in a population of people at work. BioMed Central 2014-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4476305/ /pubmed/25511175 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-014-0354-0 Text en © Bocéréan and Dupret; licensee BioMed Central. 2014 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Bocéréan, Christine Dupret, Emilie A validation study of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in a large sample of French employees |
title | A validation study of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in a large sample of French employees |
title_full | A validation study of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in a large sample of French employees |
title_fullStr | A validation study of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in a large sample of French employees |
title_full_unstemmed | A validation study of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in a large sample of French employees |
title_short | A validation study of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in a large sample of French employees |
title_sort | validation study of the hospital anxiety and depression scale (hads) in a large sample of french employees |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4476305/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25511175 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-014-0354-0 |
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