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Background: The 15-item geriatric depression scale (GDS-15) is a short form of GDS and is used to screen, diagnose, and evaluate depression in elderly individuals. Most previous studies evaluated the ability of GDS-15 to discriminate between depressive and non-depressive states.
Instructions: Choose the best answer for how you felt over the past week. This is the original scoring for the scale: One point for each of these answers. Cutoff: normal-0-9; mild depressives-10-19; severe depressives-20-30.
In the assessment of depression in old age, the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) (Brink et al., 1982; Yesavage et al., 1983) is currently one of the most used depression self-reports.
The GDS-SF is written at a fourth-grade reading level (Nelson et al., 2010). Examinees are asked to respond Yes or No to each item in reference to the past week (see Appendix). One point is given for depressive responses. All responses are summed to calculate the GDS-SF score.
A score 10 points is almost always indicative of depression. A score 5 points should warrant a follow-up comprehensive assessment. Source: This scale is in the public domain.
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Scores of 0-4 are considered normal, depending on age, education, and complaints; 5-8 indicate mild depression; 9-11 indicate moderate depression; and 12-15 indicate severe depression.
Scoring and Interpretation Each item on the measure is rated on a 5-point scale (1=never; 2=rarely; 3=sometimes; 4=often; and 5=always) with a range in score from 8 to 40 with higher scores indicating greater severity of depression.
Citation. Yesavage, J. A., Brink, T. L., Rose, T. L., Lum, O., Huang, V., Adey, M., Leirer, O. (1983). Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) [Database record].

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