Assessing anxiety among adolescents in Hong Kong: psychometric properties and validity of the Generalised Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) in an epidemiological community sample.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The development of a valid and simple-to-use self-administered tool in Asian adolescents for clinical screening and intervention remains limited. The present study assessed the psychometric characteristics and validity of the Generalised Anxiety Disorder Scale-7 (GAD-7) among adolescents in Hong Kong.

Methods

Epidemiological data from 3,261 Hong Kong adolescents aged 15 - 24 years were analysed for the construct validity, criterion validity, concurrent validity, and Rasch Model. All analyses were age- and gender-weighted according to the distributions of Hong Kong's general population.

Results

The GAD-7 showed high internal consistency and strong fit to the one-factor structure. The best cut-off value was set at 7 or more. Regression models found that the t

SUBMITTER: Ip H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9664827 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature