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Screening for Depression on Continuing Care Psychogeriatric Wards
Author(s) -
SHAH AJIT,
GRAY TIMOTHY
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
international journal of geriatric psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.28
H-Index - 129
eISSN - 1099-1166
pISSN - 0885-6230
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1099-1166(199701)12:1<125::aid-gps416>3.0.co;2-r
Subject(s) - depression (economics) , dementia , cutoff , medicine , continuing care , psychiatry , geriatric psychiatry , nursing , disease , quantum mechanics , economics , macroeconomics , physics
The performance of the Depressive Signs Scale (DSS), completed by the nursing staff, in detecting significant clinical depression among continuing care psychogeriatric inpatients was examined. A cutoff score of 5/6 gave the best sensitivity (70%) and specificity (72%) in the whole sample. The same cutoff value gave the best sensitivity (62%) and specificity (72%) in the dementia subsample. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.