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| Usefulness of Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) in the Korean elderly population | | Author(s) | Sangmee Ahn Jo, Moon Ho Park, Inho Jo |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 22, no 3, March 2007 |
| Pages | pp 218-223 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Evaluation ; Korea. |
| Annotation | The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and a health questionnaire for older people were administered to 2729 subjects aged 60+ chosen by stratified random sampling in Ansan city, South Korea. The BDI and the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) were examined at about a 2-year interval. A reliability and validity test, a factor analysis and ROC curve analysis were performed. 84 subjects had depression and 2645 were rated as normal. The BDI showed significant positive internal consistency (r=0.88) and test-retest reliability (r=0.60). Convergent validity with GDS was significantly positive (r=0.59) and an exploratory factor analysis revealed four factors. The authors suggest a score of 16 as the optimal cut-off point for the BDI when screening for major depression. The results show that the Korean version of the BDI is appropriate for screening for depression. Screening of elderly depression with BDI in the community would be valuable when comparing younger adults and with their former BDI data which were taken when they were young. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-070627208 A |
| Classmark | ENR: 4C: 7DK |
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