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A new version of the Geriatric Depression Scale for nursing and residential home populations
— the Geriatric Depression Scale (Residential) (GDS-12R) | | Author(s) | Caroline Sutcliffe, Lis Cordingley, Alistair Burns |
| Journal title | International Psychogeriatrics, vol 12, no 2, June 2000 |
| Pages | pp 173-182 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Screening ; Residents [care homes] ; Care homes ; Nursing homes ; Evaluation ; North West England. |
| Annotation | Development of the Geriatric Depression Scale (Residential) (GDS-12R), a screening measure appropriate for use with older people in nursing and residential care, including those with significant cognitive impairment, is reported. 308 newly admitted residents of 30 nursing and residential homes in north-west England were interviewed using the GDS-15, the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) and the Affect Balance Scale (ABS). A 12-item version of the GDS was shown to have greater internal reliability than the 15-item version, because of the context-dependent nature of the deleted items. There was close agreement between the GDS-12R items and another indicator of depressed mood (a single item from the ABS). Furthermore, moderate to high levels of cognitive impairment did not affect the performance of the new version of the scale. The GDS-12R provides researchers and clinicians with a brief, easy-to-administer depression scale that is relevant to nursing and residential home populations. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001109212 A |
| Classmark | ENR: 3V: KX: KW: LHB: 4C: 82NW |
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