Equating the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 to the HADS depression and anxiety subscales in patients with major depressive disorder
Equating the PHQ-9 and GAD-7 to the HADS depression and anxiety subscales in patients with major depressive disorder
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重性抑郁障碍患者PHQ-9和GAD-7与HADS抑郁和焦虑分量表的等值性研究
DOI:
10.1016/j.jad.2022.05.079
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发表时间:
2022-05-25
影响因子:
6.6
通讯作者:
Xu, Ming-Zhi
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作者:
Huang, Xiao-Jie;Ma, Hai-Yan;Xu, Ming-Zhi
Objective: The present study aimed to equate the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) and 7-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder Scale (GAD-7) to the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) depression and anxiety subscales (HADS-D,HADS-A) respectively in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and generate crosswalks of raw scores.Methods: As it is a single group design that adopts common-person equating method, a total of 460 patients with MDD completed the PHQ-9, GAD-7 and HADS at the same time. Rasch analysis was used to filter out invalid participants, investigate the psychometric properties of test items and participants, link the PHQ-9 and HADS-D as well as GAD-7 and HADS-A, and produce conversion tables respectively. The differences between original scores and converted scores were analyzed to validate the crosswalks.Result: 401 samples of depression part and 396 samples of anxiety part were left for final samples. Both the PHQ-9 / HADS-D and GAD-7 / HADS-A combined analysis adequately fit the unidimensional Rasch model, demonstrated acceptable reliability and item-person targeting and showed no disordering category. Slight differential item functioning across gender was found in item PHQ9 and item GAD6. The crosswalks were generated and verified to be validity.Limitations: The results might be restricted to patients with MDD recruited in a single mental health center.Conclusion: The PHQ-9, GAD-7 and HADS depression and anxiety subscales were successfully linked, producing conversion tables that could be used for directly converting raw score from one instrument to the other.