| Title |
Problems in Cross-Cultural Use of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale: “No Butterflies in the Desert”
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, August 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0070975 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gemma A. Maters, Robbert Sanderman, Aimee Y. Kim, James C. Coyne |
| Abstract |
The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is widely used to screen for anxiety and depression. A large literature is citable in support of its validity, but difficulties are increasingly being identified, such as inexplicably discrepant optimal cutpoints and inconsistent factor-structures. This article examines whether these problems could be due to the construction of the HADS that poses difficulties for translation and cross-cultural use. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 5 | 28% |
| United States | 3 | 17% |
| Ireland | 2 | 11% |
| Spain | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 7 | 39% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 50% |
| Scientists | 6 | 33% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 17% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 125 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 1 | <1% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| Norway | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 118 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 21 | 17% |
| Researcher | 16 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 15 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 9 | 7% |
| Other | 22 | 18% |
| Unknown | 28 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 39 | 31% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 24 | 19% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 8 | 6% |
| Neuroscience | 5 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 3% |
| Other | 11 | 9% |
| Unknown | 34 | 27% |