A psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in patients with coronary heart disease

Abstract

The C-HADS can guide and evaluate the delivery of psychological care for Chinese patients with CHD.

Normative values for the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) in the general German population

“…The dimensional approach also seems to be more appropriate for investigations of the temporal stability for anxiety and depression. Simple test-retest-correlations like those given in [31][32][33] are better comparable than percentages of subjects changing from one to another HADS category [34], since the latter procedure depends on the choice of the cut-off scores.…”

A psychometric evaluation of a Chinese version of the Cardiac Depression Scale

“…Depression is both a precursor and a consequence of cardiovascular disease and an important determinant affecting recovery [2,3]. For instance, more than one third of patients in China with acute myocardial infarction (MI) experience clinical depression [4], similar to rates in the West [5]. However, although depression is prevalent among Chinese [6], the rates of recognition of depression among this population are low [7].…”

Validation of a Chinese Version of the Self-Efficacy for Managing Chronic Disease 6-Item Scale in Patients with Hypertension in Primary Care

“…Tahmassian and colleagues reported that there is a significant and negative relationship between self-efficacy and depression ( = −0.42) and anxiety ( = −0.46) [24]. To investigate the concurrent validity of the SES6C, the validated Chinese version of HADS [25,26] was used as an external criterion. The HADS is widely used as a screening measure for both dimensional and categorical aspects of anxiety and depression [27].…”