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Screening for late life depression
— cutoff scores for the Geriatric Depression Scale and the Cornell Scale for Depression among Japanese subjects | | Author(s) | Andrea S Schreiner, Hiroshi Hayakawa, Tomoko Morimoto |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 18, no 6, June 2003 |
| Pages | pp 498-505 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Screening ; Dementia ; Evaluation ; Japan. |
| Annotation | Proper screening of depression in older people depends on accurate cut-off scores. Recent articles have recommended the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) and the Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia (CSDD) for this screening. In this study to identify appropriate cut-off scores for these tests, the GDS and CSDD were administered to 74 non-depressed older Japanese and to 37 older Japanese with diagnosis of major or minor depression. Depressed subjects were also administered the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS). The GDS cut-off score of 6 was the same as that reported for Western subjects. The cut-off score for the CSDD was 5. Due to the substantial prevalence of psychiatric disorders found in false-negative subjects, the cut-off scores were chosen to optimize the potential for true positives. These scores are recommended for alerting general practitioners (GPs) and other caregivers as to when more intensive depression evaluation is needed. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030702202 A |
| Classmark | ENR: 3V: EA: 4C: 7DT |
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