Reliability, validilty and factor structure of the GDS-15 in Iranian elderly

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 588-593

  Malakouti, Seyed Kazem ^a,e   Fatollahi, Paridokht ^b   Mirabzadeh, Arash ^c   Salavati, Mojgan ^c   Zandi, Taher ^d  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Ministry of Oil   (Iran)

^c University of Welfare and Social Sciences   (Iran)

^d STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^e NONE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Depression; Elderly; Geriatric depression scale 15; Screening

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPOSITE INTERNATIONAL DIAGNOSTIC INTERVIEW; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GOLD STANDARD; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; IRAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RELIABILITY; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SPLIT HALF CORRELATION; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; URBAN AREA; VALIDITY; ARAB; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARABS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 33745917677     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: 10991166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gps.1533     Document Type: Article

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