OBJECTIVE To measure depressive symptomatology in a largely illiterate elderly population in India, using a new Hindi version of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-H), and to examine its distribution and associations with age, gender, literacy, cognitive impairment and functional impairment. DESIGN A Hindi version of the Geriatric Depression Scale was developed and administered to participan...

Data Extraction: The suicide items from the Children’s Depression Rating Scale–Revised and the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale as well as adverse event reports of suicide attempts and suicide during active treatment were analyzed in 9185 patients (fluoxetine: 2635 adults, 960 geriatric patients, 708 youths; venlafaxine: 2421 adults with immediate-release venlafaxine and 2461 adults with extend...

Objective This study compared the symptomatic emotional traits of elderly South Korean patients with hwa-byung and those with depression. Methods We enrolled 58 patients with hwa-byung, 180 patients with depression, and 181 healthy control subjects. All participants completed the Hwa-byung Scale, Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Geriatric Depression Sc...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of depressive symptoms among elderly and correlate the agreement between the screening methods used. METHODS A cross-section study of 137 elderly attending the Programa Vivendo a Terceira Idade [Living for the Elderly Program]. Depressive symptoms were screened by the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 and the 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale, by Yesavage. ...

Quasi experimental one group pre test and post test design was adopted for the present study conducted at St.Joseph old age home, Coimbatore. Using purposive sampling technique 28 subjects, who had mild and moderate depression were selected by using Geriatric depression scale. Therapeutic Touch procedure was administered for each elderly over a month period. After the intervention, the level of...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES We addressed a lack of geriatric content in our third-year family medicine clerkship. Adding this content posed a challenge in that students are dispersed to clinical sites across New England. Our goal was to promote student skill in functional assessment of elderly patients. METHODS We used multiple formats: a workshop, a small-group case discussion, an online video...

the aim of this study was to examine whether formal and informal social activities are associated with a lower risk of depression. besides, we investigated which type of social activities may protect against late-life depression by gender using data from a population-based study of older korean adults.data for analysis were drawn from the 2010 korean longitudinal study of aging. study sample in...

OBJECTIVE The objectives of the study were to find out the prevalence of depression and to identify associated risk factors among community dwelling elderly in Karachi. METHODS It was a cross-sectional, descriptive study involving 284 community-dwelling elderly residing in Karachi, Pakistan. A non-probability convenience sampling was done. The Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15) was used to a...

OBJECTIVE To develop a brief informant version of the Geriatric Depression Scale for use in screening for depression in older adults. DESIGN A scale development and validation study. SETTING Internal medicine and geriatric outpatient clinics located at the James A. Haley Veterans' Medical Center and the University of South Florida Medical Center, Tampa, Florida. PARTICIPANTS A total of 14...