Assessment of anxiety and depression in schoolchildren in grades 9, 11 on the “Hospital anxiety and depression scale HADS”

Chronic stress is a natural part of school life, including problems with grades, increased amounts of information to study and remember, sleep disturbances and upcoming exams. Exposure to stress leads to problems such as anxiety and depression. In order to study the prevalence of these conditions among schoolchildren, in this article the authors use the hospital HADS scale.