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Home / Publications / Pain Research Forum / Papers of the Week / Detecting anxiety and depression among people with limited literacy living with chronic low back pain in Nigeria: adaptation and validation of the hospital anxiety and depression scale.

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2021 May 07


Arch Public Health


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33962689?dopt=Abstract


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Detecting anxiety and depression among people with limited literacy living with chronic low back pain in Nigeria: adaptation and validation of the hospital anxiety and depression scale.

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Detecting anxiety and depression among people with limited literacy living with chronic low back pain in Nigeria: adaptation and validation of the hospital anxiety and depression scale.
Igwesi-Chidobe C N, Muomah RC, Sorinola I O, Godfrey E L
Arch Public Health. 2021 May 07; 79(1):72.
PMID: 33962689.

Abstract

The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) is one of the most popular measures of anxiety and depression. The original HADS is mostly used in Nigeria precluding people with limited literacy. This study aimed to cross-culturally adapt and psychometrically test the HADS for rural and urban Nigerian Igbo populations with chronic low back pain (CLBP) who have limited literacy.
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