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The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale

1983/06/01 by A. S. Zigmond, R. P. Snaith · 46,907 citations
Medicine · Psychology · #Anxiety #Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes #Cardiac Health and Mental Health #Clinical psychology #Depression (economics) #Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale #Medicine #Outpatient clinic #Psychiatry #Psychology #Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments #Scale (ratio)

paper · doi:10.1111/j.1600-0447.1983.tb09716.x

published in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica 67(6), 361-370 (Wiley)

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Abstract

A self-assessment scale has been developed and found to be a reliable instrument for detecting states of depression and anxiety in the setting of an hospital medical outpatient clinic. The anxiety and depressive subscales are also valid measures of severity of the emotional disorder. It is suggested that the introduction of the scales into general hospital practice would facilitate the large task of detection and management of emotional disorder in patients under investigation and treatment in medical and surgical departments.

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