Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale Questionnaire

Definition 1

A standardized survey developed and copyrighted by A. S. Zigmond and R. P. Snaith in 1983, 1992, 1994 and published in the Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica journal (A.S. Zigmond and R.P. Snaith. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Acta psychiart. scand. 1983, 67:361-370) which is used to detect depression and anxiety in individuals in a hospital or medical outpatient clinic. This instrument is a self-administered questionnaire consisting of 14 items that assess how the individual has felt over the past week. Each item as 4 response options that are associated with a score of 0 to 3. (NCI Thesaurus)

Definition 2

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) (copyright 1983, 1992, 1994 by R.P. Snaith and A.S. Zigmond. All rights reserved.). (NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

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