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| Factor structure of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression in a cohort of community-dwelling elderly | | Author(s) | Lisa L Onega, Ivo L Abraham |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 12, no 7, July 1997 |
| Pages | pp 760-764 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Living in the community ; Screening ; Evaluation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The authors examined the factor structure of the 17-item Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRS-D) in 206 older patients living in the community in Virginia, United States. Using principal components analysis and quartimax rotation, a four-factor structure involving all 17 items and accounting for 57.7% of the variance was derived. The four factors represented the following dimensions: depressed affect, vegetative symptoms, anxiety, and agitation/insight. The factor structure reflects the presentation of depressive symptomatology and depressive illness in the population. Findings suggest that the HRS-D can be used for clinical assessment of depressive symptomatology along major dimensions of depressive illness in community-dwelling older people. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970807262 A |
| Classmark | ENR: K4: 3V: 4C: 7T |
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