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| The effectiveness of very short scales for depression screening in elderly medical patients | | Author(s) | Ian M Pomeroy, Christopher R Clark, Ian Philp |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 16, no 3, March 2001 |
| Pages | pp 321-326 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Screening ; In-patients ; Medical wards ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | Very short depression screening tools have been developed for use with older people, and have the potential to improve poor detection rates for depression in medical patients. In screening a rehabilitation population, there is very little choose between the 15- and 30-item versions of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15 and GDS-30) and two very short depression screening tools: a 1-item Mental Health Inventory (MHI-1) and the GDS-4. The results suggest that MHI-1 and GDS-4 should be further studied in their own right, across all older age ranges, by virtue of the advantages of these very brief and user-friendly screening scales to both screener and those who are screened. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010406208 A |
| Classmark | ENR: 3V: LF7: LD4: 4C |
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