Am J Psychiatry 1982; 139:799-802
Copyright © 1982 by American Psychiatric Association
Screening for depression in geriatric medical patients
JT Okimoto, RF Barnes, RC Veith, MA Raskind, TS Inui and WB Carter
Depression, a common and treatable psychiatric disorder in later life, is
often overlooked in geriatric medical patients. The authors evaluated the
validity of two self-rating depression scales, the Zung Self-Rating
Depression Scale and the Popoff Index of Depression, for 55 elderly
patients. They compared these ratings with the diagnosis assigned by a
psychiatrist who was blind to scale results and who interviewed these
patients using DSM-III criteria. The two scales correctly classified 80%
and 69% of the subjects, respectively. The authors identify six items from
the two scales that may serve as a simple screening instrument for the
detection of depression in geriatric medical patients.
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