Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)- Ethiopia
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Ayalu Aklilu |
| Last Name | Reda |
| Not Available | |
| Affiliation | Department of Public Health, Haramaya University, Harar, Ethiopia |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) – Ethiopian Version |
| Mental health condition assessed | Anxiety and Depression |
| Idiom of distress included, if any | Not Applicable |
| Lifestage of interest | Adult (General) |
| Age range (age – age) | — |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Ethiopia |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | Amharic |
| Clinical or community sample? | Clinical |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | HIV/AIDS Patients |
| Development procedures | Culturally adapted |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? | — |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable | — |
| Cronbach’s alpha | 0.87 |
| Sensitivity | — |
| Spec | — |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) | Additionally, Cronbach’s alpha for the anxiety and depression subscales were 0.76 and 0.87 respectively. The intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) was 0.80, 0.86, and 0.84 for the anxiety subscale, depression subscale, and full scale respectively. |
| Links to development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool | Reda AA (2011) Reliability and Validity of the Ethiopian Version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in HIV Infected Patients. PLoS ONE 6(1): e16049. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016049 |
| Notes when administering the tool | The Ethiopian HADS should be administered verbally by a trained research assistant fluent in Amharic. Each item is scored from 0-3, meaning that an individual can score from 0-21 for the full scale. All items on the scale are summed with equal weight to produce a total score. The total score can also be separated into the anxiety and depression subscales. |