Zohair Al Aseri|Mohammad Owais Suriya|Hosam A. Hassan|Mujtaba Hasan|Shaffi Ahmed Sheikh|Adel Al Tamimi|Mashhoor Alshathri|Najeeb Khalid
Reliability and validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in an emergency department in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional observational study
King Khalid University Hospital|University of Saskatchewan|King Khalid University Hospital|King Khalid University Hospital|King Khalid University Hospital|King Khalid University Hospital|King Khalid University Hospital|Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
depression anxiety prevalent psychiatric comorbidities known negative impact patients general prognosis screening potential comorbidities hospitals accident emergency department seldom undertaken particularly saudi arabia elsewhere middle east hospital anxiety depression scale hads extensively used evaluate psychiatric comorbidities various clinical settings levels health care services except accident emergency department study therefore aimed assess reliability validity hads anxiety depression among patients hospital accident emergency department saudi arabiathis crosssectional observational study conducted january december 2012 participants 257 adult patients aged 16 years presented accident emergency department king khalid university hospital riyadh saudi arabia met inclusion criteria used arabic translation hads employed factor analysis determine underlying factor structure instrument assessing reliability validitywe found arabic version hads acceptable 95 subjects used cronbachs alpha coefficient evaluate reliability indicated significant correlation anxiety 073 depression 077 subscales hads thereby supporting validity instrument means factor analysis obtained twofactor solution according two hads subscales anxiety depression observed statistically significant correlation r 057 p 00001 two subscalesthe hads used effectively accident emergency department initial screening instrument anxiety depression thus great potential part integrated multidisciplinary care