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| Screening and quantification of depression in mild-to-moderate dementia through the GDS short forms | | Author(s) | Valeria Isella, Maria Letizia Villa, Ildebrando M Appollonio |
| Journal title | Clinical Gerontologist, vol 24, nos 3/4, 2001 |
| Pages | pp 115-126 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Screening ; Measurement ; Dementia. |
| Annotation | The authors reviewed the validity of the 1-, 4- and 15-item versions of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) in 51 patients affected by mild to moderate dementia, using the long form as standard. The following sensitivity and specificity values were obtained: 66% and 91% for GDS-1, 93% and 87% for GDS-4, and 79% and 100% for GDS-15. GDS-15 also showed good agreement with GDS-30 in defining the severity of depression. These findings support the use of GDS-4 for screening depression, and GDS-15 for its severity assessment. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021028215 A |
| Classmark | ENR: 3V: 3R: EA |
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