TY - JOUR
T1 - The Short GDS
T2 - Evaluation in a Heterogeneous, Multilingual Population
AU - Cwikel, Julie
AU - Ritchie, Karen
N1 - Funding Information:
man Development in Jerusalem, Israel. Karen Rifchie is Rcsearch Associate, Brookdale Institute of Geronfolog. and Adult Human Development in Jerusalem, Israel. Address correspondence to: Dr. J. Cwikel, Brookdale Institute of Gerontol- ogy, P.O. Box 13087, Jerusalem, Israel, 91130. This research was partially supported by the National Institute of Aging, Grant 1 A01 AG02957-01AI. The authors would like to thank Mr. Avram Verter, Dr. R. Bastiens and Ms. Jenia Ben-Yair for their help in contacting the depressed subjects.
PY - 1989/1/10
Y1 - 1989/1/10
N2 - Difficulties in detecting depressive illness in the elderly have recently led to the development of screening tests which focus on depressive symptoms typical of older persons. The present study examined the utility of one such test, the Short GDS, in a heterogeneous elderly population. The sample consisted of 20 clinically depressed elderly, matched with 20 elderly from a Jerusalem neighborhood sample. The test was found to significantly discriminate depressed and normal community-dwelling elderly. Sensitivity and specificity were found to be inadequate for large-scale screening. This was hypothesized to be due to the use, in the present study, of depressed persons on antidepressant medication, cultural variations in the interpretation of items, the treatment of missing data, and the variance in community sample. The Short GDS has utility for use in a two-stage screening process.
AB - Difficulties in detecting depressive illness in the elderly have recently led to the development of screening tests which focus on depressive symptoms typical of older persons. The present study examined the utility of one such test, the Short GDS, in a heterogeneous elderly population. The sample consisted of 20 clinically depressed elderly, matched with 20 elderly from a Jerusalem neighborhood sample. The test was found to significantly discriminate depressed and normal community-dwelling elderly. Sensitivity and specificity were found to be inadequate for large-scale screening. This was hypothesized to be due to the use, in the present study, of depressed persons on antidepressant medication, cultural variations in the interpretation of items, the treatment of missing data, and the variance in community sample. The Short GDS has utility for use in a two-stage screening process.
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U2 - 10.1300/J018v08n02_06
DO - 10.1300/J018v08n02_06
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0024240006
SN - 0731-7115
VL - 8
SP - 63
EP - 83
JO - Clinical Gerontologist
JF - Clinical Gerontologist
IS - 2
ER -