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Examination of the construct validity of the Swedish version of Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in breast cancer patients
Sophiahemmet University.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3457-4737
2013 (English)In: Quality of Life Research, ISSN 0962-9343, E-ISSN 1573-2649, Vol. 22, no 10, p. 2849-2856Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

PURPOSE: To examine the construct validity of the Swedish version of Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HAD) in women with breast cancer. METHOD: Acquired data on HAD from 727 women who recently had breast cancer surgery, were aged 20-63 years and worked before diagnosis, and had no previous breast cancer (n = 725) were subjected to confirmatory factor analysis examining the viability of three hypothesized measurement models. RESULTS: The analysis showed adequate fit to the data for both bi-dimensional and three-factorial models of HAD. The single-factorial model, however, was shown to have inferior fit to the data. Substantive correlations were found between anxiety and depression in the bi-dimensional model, and negative affectivity and anxiety in the three-factorial model of HAD. CONCLUSIONS: The findings support the utility of scoring procedure based on the original bi-dimensional model, but add indication of co-occurrence of anxiety and depression in this patient population. The discriminant validity of a third factor of negative affectivity in a three-factorial model, however, remains unclear.

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2013. Vol. 22, no 10, p. 2849-2856
Keywords [en]
Breast cancer, Anxiety, Depression, HAD, Validation, Confirmatory factor analysis
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URN: urn:nbn:se:shh:diva-1381DOI: 10.1007/s11136-013-0407-8PubMedID: 23568598OAI: oai:DiVA.org:shh-1381DiVA, id: diva2:633487
Available from: 2013-06-27 Created: 2013-06-27 Last updated: 2020-06-02Bibliographically approved

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