Comparison of Anxiety Detection in Parents of Children
with Strabismus between HADS-A and SAS
The anxiety rate measured by the HADS-A and SAS criteria in parents of
children with strabismus differed significantly (21.82% vs. 12.73%,P = 0.012,Fig 1a), as Figure 1 illustrates. According to the
HADS-A and SAS criteria, the parents who had concurrent anxiety were
77.09% and 92.86% mildly anxiety, 20.83% and 7.14% moderately
anxiety, and 2.08% and 0 severely anxiety (Fig 1b). The severity of
anxiety as determined by SAS criteria and HADS-A did not differ from one
another (Fisher test, P = 0.192). According to Figure 2, 5.91%
(13/220) of parents reported feeling anxiety based on both HADS-A and
SAS criteria; 15.91% (35/220) reported showing anxiety based only on
HADS-A criteria; 6.82% (15/220) exhibited anxiety based only on SAS
criteria; and 71.36% (157/220) did not show anxiety based neither
HADS-A nor SAS criteria. There was a substantial correlation( Spearman
test r = 0.468, P < 0.001) between the HADS-A scores
and the SAS scores(Fig 2).