The Geriatric Depression Scale: a review of its development and utility.
The Geriatric Depression Scale: a review of its development and utility.
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DOI：
10.1017/s1041610296002505
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发表时间：
1996-01-01
影响因子：
7
通讯作者：
Izal, M
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作者：
Montorio, I;Izal, M
本文回顾了老年抑郁量表（GDS）的临床老年学的从业者和研究人员的意义，超过10年后，规模被介绍给科学界。这份报告总结了最相关的验证研究的结果，在这些研究中，对这种用于评估老年人抑郁症的自我报告进行了测试。包括讨论使用GDS与特定人群（老年内科住院患者，疗养院居民和痴呆症人群），与规模的心理测量特性和它的效用时，与他们一起使用的描述。这篇文章还提供了数据使用的GDS从最近的研究，包括额外的信息，心理测量特性，源偏差的影响，以及国际传播的GDS。我们的结论是，GDS是一个相关的自我报告的老年人抑郁症的评估，因为它的优势比其他自我报告，不容易管理到这个年龄组，它的实用程序在抑郁症的检测，其足够的心理测量特性。然而，GDS在痴呆症人群中没有保持其有效性，因为它无法识别轻度至中度痴呆症患者的抑郁症。最后，对未来的研究提出了一些建议。
This article reviews the significance of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) to practitioners and researchers in clinical gerontology, more than 10 years after the scale was introduced to the scientific community. This report summarizes findings from the most relevant validation studies in which this self-report for assessing depression in elderly people has been tested. Included is discussion of the use of the GDS with specific populations (elderly medical inpatients, nursing home residents, and dementia populations), with description of the scale's psychometric properties and its utility when used with them. This article also provides data on the use of the GDS from more recent studies, including additional information on psychometric properties, influence of source bias, and the international dissemination of the GDS. We conclude that the GDS is a relevant self-report for the assessment of depression in the elderly, given its advantage over other self-reports that are not as easily administered to this age group, its utility in the detection of depression, and its adequate psychometric properties. However, the GDS does not maintain its validity in demented populations because it fails to identify depression in persons with mild to moderate dementia. Finally, some suggestions for future research are made.