Psychometric Properties and Factor Structure of the Chinese Version of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in People Living With HIV

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Zhiyuan Yang¹  Hao Wu¹  Jianhua Hou¹  Xiaojie Huang¹  Tong Zhang¹  Aixin Song¹  Xinchao Liu²  Wenfang Wu⁴  Hui Chen⁴  Kathrine Meyers⁵ 

[1] Center for Infectious Diseases, Beijing You’an Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China;Department of Infectious Diseases, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Beijing, China;Peking University People’s Hospital, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China;School of Biomedical Engineering, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China;The Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, New York, NY, United States;

关键词: Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale;    internal reliability;    factor analysis;    acquired immune deficiency syndrome;    human immunodeficiency virus;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00346

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The population of people living with HIV (PLWH) is growing in number and usually results in mental health problems that impact their quality of life. Therefore, valid instruments and screening methods for psychological disorders are of great significance. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) reveals good psychometric properties, but shows ambiguous results in factor structure. This study aims to evaluate psychometric properties in terms of the internal reliability and structure validity of the Chinese version of the HADS (C-HADS) in a large sample of PLWH in China. The C-HADS was administered to 4,102 HIV-infected adults at an HIV clinic in China. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) were performed to examine the factor structure. Measurement invariance was assessed across gender and course of infection. Internal reliability was also assessed. A bifactor model with anomalous loadings of items 7, 8, and 10 fits the data best and holds measurement invariance across gender and course of infection. Internal reliability was good with all Cronbach’s alphas > 0.70 and Spearman’s ρ between 0.30 and 0.70. The C-HADS has good psychometric properties in terms of internal reliability and structure validity of a bifactor model. The C-HADS is recommended to be used as a total scale that measures general psychological distress, instead of anxiety and depression separately, when applied to PLWH. Further studies are needed to evaluate criterion validity, the cutoff score, and the effect of wording and scoring of the HADS.

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