Resumen:Introducción: La escala de Ansiedad y Depresión Hospitalaria (HADS-Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Zigmond y Snaith, 1983) se ha convertido en un popular instrumento clínico diseñado para evaluar ansiedad y depresión, encontrándose evidencias de que aplicado a diversas poblaciones parece tener tan buenas propiedades de detección cómo otros instrumentos. Numerosos trabajos en muestra española comprueban sus propiedades psicométricas y puntos de corte. Nuestro objetivo es unificar los resultados de estudios realizados en muestras españolas para concretar directrices que orienten en la aplicabilidad e interpretación de sus puntuaciones. Método: Revisión bibliográfica. Resultados: Se seleccionaron 15 artículos, a) se confirma que las propiedades psicométricas del HAD en diferentes muestras son óptimas, b) se presenta cierta variabilidad de puntos de corte para cada población y c) determinados ítems muestran débil carga factorial e ítem-test. Discusión: se plantea qué ítems deben reconsiderarse para un HAD abreviado. Se sugiere valorar la escala total de distrés. Palabras clave: HAD; Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; revisión; propiedades psicométricas; puntos de corte.Title: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) review in Spanish Samples. Abstract. Introduction: The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS, Zigmond and Snaith, 1983) has become a popular clinical instrument designed to assess anxiety and depression. Evidence of HADS' good screening properties applied to several samples has been found. HADS seems to be as good screening properties as other tools. Different studies in Spanish sample tested its psychometric properties, including also their cut-offs points, specificity and sensitivity. Our aim is to unify the results of studies in Spanish population specifying guidelines regarding their applicability and interpretation of their cut-off points. Material and method: bibliographic review. Results: 15 articles were selected, a) HADS confirms its optimal psychometric properties in different groups, b) HADS shows some variability in proposed cut-off points for different groups, c) A number of items shown weak factor loading and item-test. Discussion: These items should be reconsidered for new proposals of a shortened final scale. We suggest attending at distress total scale.

Our study showed that the FAB may be an adequate assessment tool for executive function and may provide useful information for differential diagnosis in several diseases. Given that the FAB takes short time and is easy to administer, its usage may be of great interest as part of a full neuropsychological assessment in clinical settings. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

The aim of this study was to compare clinical symptoms, perceived health status, health resource use and psychosocial features in fibromyalgia (FM) patients at different health care levels. A total of 315 participants were recruited from primary care (PC) (n=101) and rheumatology settings (RS) (n=214). Subjects completed a protocol of clinical features and health resource use, hospital anxiety and depression scale, sickness impact profile, chronic pain self-efficacy scale, multidimensional pain locus of control scale, perceived health competence scale and chronic pain coping inventory. Student's t test, effect size, and contrast and power test were performed to examine differences between samples. FM patients treated in PC and RS were similar in most variables assessed and only differed significantly in tender points, sleep disturbance, wellness-focused coping strategies and in self-efficacy beliefs. The similarities do not support patient selection through care levels and thus, in the Spanish health care system at least, endorse PC as a reference unit for treatment and questioning the benefits of referring patients to RS.

This study shows that patients' illness perceptions are related to illness adaptation. Illness identity was associated with emotional and psychosocial adjustment, and having faith that treatment may control the illness was related to positive benefits for ED. These results suggest that a psychological intervention, which addresses patients' illness representations, may assist in their adjustment to ED.

We suggest that intervention programmes with chronic pain and fibromyalgia patients should focus on enhancing the use of upward identification in social comparison, and on minimising the use of upward contrast and downward identification in social comparison.