Geriatric Depression Scale Questionnaire
Go to external page http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C106697
A standardized rating scale developed by Yesavage et al in 1983, which is a self-report assessment used to identify depression in older adults. The questionnaire contains 30 items. All questions are answered 'yes' or 'no'.
Synonyms: GDS Geriatric Depression Scale Questionnaire GDS01
This is just here as a test because I lose it
Term information
Subsets
NCIT_C120166, NCIT_C100129, NCIT_C66830, NCIT_C61410, NCIT_C100110
ALT DEFINITION
Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) (Yesavage JA, Brink TL, Rose TL, et al. Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: a preliminary report. J Psychiatry Res. 1983;17(1):37-49).