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## Abstract ## Objective To examine the criterion validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the Geriatric Depression Scale 15‐item (GDS‐15) in a community sample of Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) out‐patients. ## Methods Eighty‐eight of 203 older adults with confirmed CHF responded to a postal survey and participated in a face‐to‐face interview. The GDS‐15 and HADS were compared to diagnoses from the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM‐IV (SCID‐I), using a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis and positive and negative predictive values, sensitivity and specificity for various cut‐off points. ## Results For all depressive disorders, the area under the ROC curve for the GDS‐15 was 0.883 and a cut‐off of 5 gave a sensitivity of 0.818 and a specificity of 0.833. The area under the ROC curve for the HADS Depression (D) and Anxiety (A) were 0.889 and 0.941 respectively. At a cut‐off of 7, the HADS‐A gave a sensitivity of 0.938 and a specificity of 0.847. At a cut‐off of 4, the HADS‐D gave a sensitivity of 0.864 and a specificity of 0.788. ## Conclusions The GDS‐15 and HADS are valid screening tools for detecting depression in aged CHF out‐patients. Howev

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Author

J. E. Haworth; E. Moniz-Cook; A. L. Clark; M. Wang; J. G. F. Cleland

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley; Research Square (ISSN 0885-6230)

Published

2007

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)