Do the GDS and the GDS-15 adequately capture the range of depressive symptoms among older residents in congregate housing?

International Psychogeriatrics

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 950-960

  Adams, Kathryn Betts ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

assessment; Geriatric Depression Scale; measurement; minor depression; non major depression; subthreshold depression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APATHY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HOME FOR THE AGED; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MINOR DEPRESSION; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SUBTHRESHOLD DEPRESSION; TELEPHONE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79960137306     PISSN: 10416102     EISSN: 1741203X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1041610210002425     Document Type: Article

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