Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale
HADS is a brief self-report of anxiety and depressive symptoms designed for medical settings. This page is for clinics. It is not a diagnosis and not a public test.
Overview
What is the HADS?
HADS has separate anxiety and depression subscales. In this catalogue it sits with pain-clinic workflows as a distress screen, not as a stand-alone psychiatric diagnosis and not as a replacement for PHQ-9 or GAD-7.
Development and clinical use
Zigmond and Snaith published HADS. The official form is distributed through a publisher, so confirm the exact form before any digital use.
- Catalogue status
- Educational entry
- Production scoring
- Not independently verified
- Mode
- self-report
- Typical use
- Clinician-reviewed intake
- Clinical role
- Anxiety and depression screening support
Administration
A focused client experience
HADS is completed as a focused self-report and stored for clinician review. This public page does not collect answers or return a score.
- One question at a time with visible progress
- Large keyboard-operable response choices
- Previous, next, and answer-review steps
- Clear confirmation that results go to the clinic
The illustration shows layout only. It does not reproduce HADS item wording.
Report showcase
Designed to make evidence easy to review
The downloadable synthetic example illustrates report layout using invented response patterns, without patient data or instrument questions.
- Named instrument, version, and provenance
- Item-level response pattern without source wording
- Methodology, references, and clinical boundary
- Responsible clinician review rather than automated conclusions
Clinician review required
Methodology
Understand the measure and its scoring conventions
Published scoring conventions may exist in official materials. This public page does not independently verify scoring, cutoffs, or a production scoring rule. Use the official form and scoring instructions for the version you intend to use.
References
- Original HADS paperZigmond AS, Snaith RP. The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Acta Psychiatr Scand. 1983;67(6):361-370.
Questions
What clinics ask before they evaluate the HADS
These answers stay inside educational catalogue scope. They do not replace official manuals or clinician judgement.
Does HADS diagnose anxiety or depression?
No. It is a screening and severity measure. Diagnosis remains a clinician task.
Can I complete HADS here?
No. This landing is educational and does not collect answers.
Is HADS the same as PHQ-9 or GAD-7?
No. They are different instruments with different item sets and scoring conventions.
Which HADS form should a clinic use?
Confirm the current publisher materials before digital use.