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Thursday, March 14, 2013

Article of Interest:Beside the Geriatric Depression Scale: the WHO-Five Well-being Index as a valid screening tool for depression in nursing homes.


This recently published study compares the WHO-Five Well-Being Index (WHO-5) and the Geriatric Depression Scale 15-item version (GDS-15) and 4-item version (GDS-4) as a valid screening tool(s) for assessing depression in nursing home residents.

This article is not open access, but the abstract can be viewed here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23463576

Citation information:

Allgaier, AK et. al. (2013). Beside the Geriatric Depression Scale: the WHO-Five Well-being Index as a valid screening tool for depression in nursing homes.  International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry [Epub ahead of print].





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