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Reliability and validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in an emergency department in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional observational study

BACKGROUND: Depression and anxiety are prevalent psychiatric comorbidities that are known to have a negative impact on a patient’s general prognosis. But screening for these potential comorbidities in a hospital’s accident and emergency department has seldom been undertaken, particularly in Saudi Ar...

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Autores principales: Al Aseri, Zohair A., Suriya, M. Owais, Hassan, Hosam A., Hasan, Mujtaba, Sheikh, Shaffi Ahmed, Al Tamimi, Adel, Alshathri, Mashhoor, Khalid, Najeeb
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4603646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26459412
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-015-0051-4
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author Al Aseri, Zohair A.
Suriya, M. Owais
Hassan, Hosam A.
Hasan, Mujtaba
Sheikh, Shaffi Ahmed
Al Tamimi, Adel
Alshathri, Mashhoor
Khalid, Najeeb
author_facet Al Aseri, Zohair A.
Suriya, M. Owais
Hassan, Hosam A.
Hasan, Mujtaba
Sheikh, Shaffi Ahmed
Al Tamimi, Adel
Alshathri, Mashhoor
Khalid, Najeeb
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description BACKGROUND: Depression and anxiety are prevalent psychiatric comorbidities that are known to have a negative impact on a patient’s general prognosis. But screening for these potential comorbidities in a hospital’s accident and emergency department has seldom been undertaken, particularly in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Middle East. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) has been extensively used to evaluate these psychiatric comorbidities in various clinical settings at all levels of health care services except for the accident and emergency department. This study therefore aimed to assess the reliability and validity of the HADS for anxiety and depression among patients at a hospital accident and emergency department in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: This cross-sectional observational study was conducted from January to December 2012. The participants were 257 adult patients (aged 16 years and above) who presented at the accident and emergency department of King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, who met our inclusion criteria. We used an Arabic translation of the HADS. We employed factor analysis to determine the underlying factor structure of that instrument in assessing reliability and validity. RESULTS: We found the Arabic version of the HADS to be acceptable for 95 % of the subjects. We used Cronbach’s alpha coefficient to evaluate reliability, and it indicated a significant correlation with both the anxiety (0.73) and depression (0.77) subscales of the HADS, thereby supporting the validity of the instrument. By means of factor analysis, we obtained a two-factor solution according to the two HADS subscales (anxiety and depression), and we observed a statistically significant correlation (r = 0.57; p < 0.0001) between the two subscales. CONCLUSION: The HADS can be used effectively in an accident and emergency department as an initial screening instrument for anxiety and depression. It thus has great potential as part of integrated multidisciplinary care.
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spelling pubmed-46036462015-10-14 Reliability and validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in an emergency department in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional observational study Al Aseri, Zohair A. Suriya, M. Owais Hassan, Hosam A. Hasan, Mujtaba Sheikh, Shaffi Ahmed Al Tamimi, Adel Alshathri, Mashhoor Khalid, Najeeb BMC Emerg Med Research Article BACKGROUND: Depression and anxiety are prevalent psychiatric comorbidities that are known to have a negative impact on a patient’s general prognosis. But screening for these potential comorbidities in a hospital’s accident and emergency department has seldom been undertaken, particularly in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere in the Middle East. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) has been extensively used to evaluate these psychiatric comorbidities in various clinical settings at all levels of health care services except for the accident and emergency department. This study therefore aimed to assess the reliability and validity of the HADS for anxiety and depression among patients at a hospital accident and emergency department in Saudi Arabia. METHODS: This cross-sectional observational study was conducted from January to December 2012. The participants were 257 adult patients (aged 16 years and above) who presented at the accident and emergency department of King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, who met our inclusion criteria. We used an Arabic translation of the HADS. We employed factor analysis to determine the underlying factor structure of that instrument in assessing reliability and validity. RESULTS: We found the Arabic version of the HADS to be acceptable for 95 % of the subjects. We used Cronbach’s alpha coefficient to evaluate reliability, and it indicated a significant correlation with both the anxiety (0.73) and depression (0.77) subscales of the HADS, thereby supporting the validity of the instrument. By means of factor analysis, we obtained a two-factor solution according to the two HADS subscales (anxiety and depression), and we observed a statistically significant correlation (r = 0.57; p < 0.0001) between the two subscales. CONCLUSION: The HADS can be used effectively in an accident and emergency department as an initial screening instrument for anxiety and depression. It thus has great potential as part of integrated multidisciplinary care. BioMed Central 2015-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4603646/ /pubmed/26459412 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-015-0051-4 Text en © Al Aseri et al. 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. 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.
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Al Aseri, Zohair A.
Suriya, M. Owais
Hassan, Hosam A.
Hasan, Mujtaba
Sheikh, Shaffi Ahmed
Al Tamimi, Adel
Alshathri, Mashhoor
Khalid, Najeeb
Reliability and validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in an emergency department in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional observational study
title Reliability and validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in an emergency department in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional observational study
title_full Reliability and validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in an emergency department in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional observational study
title_fullStr Reliability and validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in an emergency department in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional observational study
title_full_unstemmed Reliability and validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in an emergency department in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional observational study
title_short Reliability and validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in an emergency department in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional observational study
title_sort reliability and validity of the hospital anxiety and depression scale in an emergency department in saudi arabia: a cross-sectional observational study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4603646/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26459412
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12873-015-0051-4
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