| First Name |
Ayalu |
| Last Name |
Reda |
| Email |
Not Available |
| Affiliation |
Haramaya University, Department of Public Health |
| 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) |
| 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)? |
Adults with HIV/AIDS taking anti-retroviral treatment |
| 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]) |
The internal consistency was 0.78 for the anxiety, 0.76 for depression subscales and 0.87 for the full scale of HADS. The intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) was 80%, 86%, and 84% for the anxiety and depression subscales, and total score, respectively. |
| Links to development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool |
Reda, A. A. (2011). Reliability and Validity of the Ethiopian Version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in HIV Infected Patients. PLoS ONE, 6(1). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0016049 |
| Notes when administering the tool |
The HADS can be broken down into depression and anxiety subscales, as illustrated in the study cited under the Links tab. Each item is rated on a Likert scale from 0-3 and all items are summed with equal weight. Sub-scoreson the anxiety or depression subscales ranging from 0 to 7 areconsidered normal; while 8 to 10 and 11 to 21 are considered ‘cause for concern’ and ‘probable cases of anxiety or depression’ respectively. |
