Journal article
Comparison of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale and the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for detecting depression in women with breast or gynecologic cancer
L Stafford, F Judd, P Gibson, A Komiti, M Quinn, GB Mann
General Hospital Psychiatry | Published : 2014
Abstract
Objective: Depression is common in cancer patients but frequently undetected. Consensus regarding validity and optimal thresholds of screening measures is lacking. We investigated the validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS-D) and Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) relative to a referent diagnostic standard in women with breast or gynecologic cancer. Method: Participants were 100 patients who completed the CES-D and HADS-D within a larger study. The Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview was the criterion standard. Sensitivity, specificity, predictive values and likelihood ratios for various thresholds were calculated using receiver operati..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This study was supported in part by seed funding from the Western and Central Melbourne Integrated Cancer Service. The Centre for Women's Mental Health is supported by the Pratt Foundation. The authors wish to thank the Breast Care Nurses Robyn Cordner, Monique Baldacchino, Kerry Shanahan, Bronwyn Flanagan and Claire Noonan for their assistance in recruiting patients to the study. We also thank the participating patients for their support of this research.