Validation of the Polish version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale for anxiety disorders in patients with epilepsy.

CONCLUSIONS: The HADS-A proved to be a valid and reliable psychometric instrument in terms of screening for anxiety disorders in our sample of PWEs. In the epilepsy setting, the HADS-A maintains adequate sensitivity, acceptable specificity, and high NPV but low PPV for diagnosing anxiety disorders with an optimum cutoff score ≥10. PMID: 29803946 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29803946?dopt=Abstract

Source: Epilepsy and Behaviour - May 24, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Wiglusz MS, Landowski J, Cubała WJ Tags: Epilepsy Behav Source Type: research