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Preliminary experience with the SELFCARE (D)
— a self-rating depression questionnaire for use in elderly, non-institutionalized subjects | | Author(s) | Anne S Bird, Alastair J D Macdonald, Anthony H Mann |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 2, no 1, Jan-Feb 1987 |
| Pages | pp 31-38 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Mental health [elderly] ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | A new self-rating depression scale for use with elderly subjects in general practice - the SELFCARE (D) - was compared with independent psychiatric assessment in 75 patients attending general practitioners at two London practices. The sensitivity was 77%, specificity 98% and positive predictive value 96%; kappa was 0·77. This preliminary experience suggests that the SELFCARE (D) is an acceptable and economic tool for the study of depression in elderly patients in a primary care setting. |
| Accession Number | CPA-930723035 |
| Classmark | ENR: D: 4C |
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