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The use of the Beck Depression Inventory as a geriatric assessment instrument
Author(s)	Stephen Halpert, Heidi Braunschweig, Norah D Peters
Journal title	Clinical Gerontologist, vol 20, no 1, 1998
Pages	pp 63-74
Source	http://www.tandfonline.com
Keywords	Depression ; Health [elderly] ; Evaluation ; United States of America.
Annotation	The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is a standard assessment tool for measuring depression in both clinical and research settings. This study investigated the use of BDI for geriatric populations by focusing exclusively on a community resident sample of 107 persons aged 65 years and over. For this sample, the BDI demonstrated sufficient validity and reliability to warrant its use as a research measure. Further, there appeared to be no relationship between age and depression scores although there was a relationship between reported health conditions and depression. (AKM).
Accession Number	CPA-990318239 A
Classmark	ENR: CC: 4C: 7T
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