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Depressive symptoms, cognitive impairment and functional impairment in a rural elderly population in India — a Hindi version of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-H)
Author(s)	Mary Ganguli, Sanjay Dube, Janet M Johnson
Journal title	International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 14, no 10, October 1999
Pages	pp 807-820
Keywords	Depression ; Mental disorder ; Cognitive impairment ; Evaluation ; Rural areas ; India.
Annotation	A Hindi version of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-H) was developed and administered to a rural community sample of 1554 mostly illiterate Hindi-speaking over 55s. The GDS-H had high internal consistency and a factor structure comparable to the original English language version. The overall distribution of scores was higher than reported from other populations. More depressive symptoms, as measured by high scores on the GDS-H, were associated with older age and illiteracy. Among the illiterate, there was no gender difference, while among the literate, higher depression scores were found among women. Cognitive impairment and functional disability were independently associated with higher scores on the GDS-H after adjustment for age, gender and literacy. This version of the GDS appears to reliable and internally consistent.(RH).
Accession Number	CPA-000114212 A
Classmark	ENR: E: E4: 4C: RL: 7FA
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