Greenberg, msn, gnpbc, hartford institute for geriatric nursing, nyu college of nursing. Clinical validation of the geriatric depression scale gds. Dysthymiadepression symptoms that are less severe than those of major depression, but last a long time at least two years. Assessment of depression in adults in primary care the questions and tools described here are adjuncts to screening and monitoring and none are diagnostic tools for common mental disorders or depression. The primary objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence and severity of depression, anxiety, and stress among a cohort of nationally certified emergency medical services ems professionals. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Stroke scale, nihss, modified, mnihss, reliability 5. Because assessment choices are guided by the clinicians nomothetic theories, we begin with a brief description of current cognitivebehavioral cb theories of depression. Answers indicating depression are in bold and italicized. Choose the best answer for how you have felt over the past week. To determine the diagnostic capability of the questionnaire gds yesavage abbreviated spanish version, as detector of depression in cuban population aged 60 and over. The nih stroke scale nihss international is an initiative by national and international government entities as well as private and scholastic organizations. Besides, ed have a high comorbidity with depression and anxiety. This study has attempted to validate the geriatric depression scale translated version chinese with a psychiatric outpatient sample n 461 of males and females aged 60 or above, from 10 governmentmaintained psychiatric outpatient clinics between january 1992 and february 1993.
The secondary objective was to determine whether there were differences between individuals who were experiencing depression, anxiety, or stress and those who were not. Depression is one of the most common and disabling syndromes of the elderly population to be a major health problem objective. Use of yesavages geriatric depression scale to evaluate. Baixe no formato pdf, txt ou leia online no scribd. While there are many instruments available to measure depression, this scale has.
Assessment of latelife depression via selfreport measures. The geriatric depression scale for screening depressive symptoms in. Use of yesavages geriatric depression scale to evaluate the prevalence of depression in inpatient elderly subjects. The gds long form is a brief, 30item questionnaire in which participants.
The geriatric depression scale gds is a 30item selfreport assessment used to identify depression in the elderly. Please tell me how often you have felt this way during the past week. Geriatric nursing, 18, 192199 nih consensus development panel. Depression screening and followup for adolescents and adults dsf nqf 0418, 0418. Assessment of depression, 3 particular component e. In assessing a mental disorder, it is important that clinicians explore potential reasons for the. A new geriatric depression scale gds designed specifically for rating depression in the elderly was tested for reliability and validity and compared with the hamilton rating scale for. The ones marked may be different from the article in the profile. Use of yesavages geriatric depression scale to evaluate the prevalence of depression in inpatient elderly subjects abstract in english aims.
Development and validation of a geriatric depression. Since adolescence is a particularly vulnerable stage to present depressed mood, and because there is a greater emphasis on depression as a state with the consequent lack of instruments to evaluate it as a feature understood as the tendency to respond in a depressive way to daily situations, 407 young people with an average age of 20. Women with perinatal depression experience fullblown major depression during pregnancy or after delivery postpartum depression. Lenore kurlowicz, phd, rn, cs, faan, university of pennsylvania school of nursing y sherry a. Yesavage ja, brink tl, rose tl, lum o, huang v, adey m, leirer vo. Center for epidemiologic studies depression scale cesd.
During the past week rarely or none of the time less than 1 day some or a little of the time 12 days occasionally or a moderate amount of time 3. Agedpsychology depressive disorderdiagnosis emotions. This cited by count includes citations to the following articles in scholar. Sad is a type of depression that comes and goes with the seasons, typically starting in the late fall and early winter and going away during the spring and. Validation of geriatric depression scale in a general outpatient clinic. Depression is a clinical syndrome of significant relevance in geriatrics, however there are few clini.