What does HADS stand for?

On the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale, seven patients (23%) showed anxiety in the clinical range while three other patients (10%) had borderline scores.

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is a 14-item self-report inventory that assesses the frequency of symptoms on an Anxiety subscale (seven items) and Depression subscale (seven items) [31].

Psychiatric Assessment Schedule for Adults with a Developmental Disability (PAS-ADD), (24) The Psychopathology Instrument for Mentally Retarded Adults (PIMRA), (21) The Diagnostic Assessment of the Severely Handicapped, (DASH II), (22) Reiss Screen for Maladaptive Behavior, (29) Yale Brown Obsessive-Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS), (11) Global Assessment of Functioning scale (GAF), (6,26) Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), (16) The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD), (12,36) Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children (K-SADS), (15) Aberrant Behavior Checklist (ABC).

The following measures were used to rate the subjects conditions: 17-item Hamilton Depression Scale, the Anxiety subscale of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale, the Life Events and Difficulties Schedule modified for elderly subjects, and the Burvill et als physical illness rating scale.

Additionally, more patients treated with Effexor XR reported symptom improvement -- based on the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) anxiety factor.

PRX-00023, given for four weeks, significantly lowered measures of anxiety from baseline in this trial, including the HAM-A total score, HAM-A psychic subscale score, CGI-Global Improvement score, and Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale.

They also completed the extended Abdominal Symptom Questionnaire, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS), and provided a complete medical history and demographic data.

The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) was used for rating mood [19-20].