The <scp>Generalized Anxiety Disorder Screener (GAD‐7</scp>) and the anxiety module of the <scp>Hospital and Depression Scale (HADS‐A</scp>) as screening tools for generalized anxiety disorder among cancer patients

Abstract

The GAD-7 and HADS-A showed AUC of adequate diagnostic accuracy and hence are applicable for GAD screening in cancer patients. Nevertheless, the choice of optimal cut-offs should be carefully evaluated.