Validation of the five-item Geriatric Depression Scale in elderly subjects in three different settings

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 694-698

  Rinaldi, Patrizia ^b   Mecocci, Patrizia ^b   Benedetti, Claudia ^b   Ercolani, Sara ^b   Bregnocchi, Mario ^b   Menculini, Giuseppe ^b   Catani, Marco ^b   Senin, Umberto ^b   Cherubini, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Depression; Effectiveness; Elderly; Geriatric Depression Scale

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COGNITION; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NURSING HOME; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RELIABILITY; SAMPLING; SCALE UP; SCREENING; STANDARDIZATION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0038070227     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0579.2003.00216.x     Document Type: Article

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