%0 Journal Article %T Depression Subscale of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale applied preoperatively in spinal surgery %A Falavigna %A Asdrubal %A Righesso %A Orlando %A Teles %A Alisson Roberto %A Baseggio %A Nat¨¢lia %A Velho %A Ma¨ªra Cristina %A Ruschel %A Leonardo Gilmone %A Abruzzi %A Fab¨ªola %A Silva %A Pedro Guarise da %J Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria %D 2012 %I Academia Brasileira de Neurologia - ABNEURO %R 10.1590/S0004-282X2012000500009 %X objective: to evaluate the accuracy of the depression subscale of hospital anxiety and depression scale (hads-d) in spine surgery, comparing it to beck depression inventory (bdi). methods: in a cross-sectional study, the hads-d and the bdi were applied to patients undergoing spine surgery for lumbar (n=139) or cervical spondylosis (n=17). spearman correlation tests for hads-d and bdi were applied. the internal consistency of hads-d was estimated by cronbach's alpha coefficient. results: according to the bdi, the prevalence of depression was of 28.8% (n=45). the spearman r coefficient between hads-d and bdi was 0.714 (p<0.001). cronbach's alpha for hads-d was 0.795. the area of the roc curve was 0.845. using a cutoff for hads-d >10, there was a sensitivity of 71.1%, specificity of 95.4%, and positive likelihood-ratio of 15.78. conclusions: hads-d showed a strong correlation with bdi and good reliability. hads-d is a good alternative for screening depression and assessing its severity. %K spine surgery %K depression %K hospital anxiety and depression scale %K beck depression inventory. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0004-282X2012000500009&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en