Author(s)
Purpose
- Pathology:
Psychiatry/psychology
- Disease:
Depression
- Objective:
Screening test for depression in elderly people
- Population for intended use:
Geriatrics
Characteristics
- Type of instrument:
Psychological functioning (incl. coping)
Signs and symptoms
- Administration mode:
Self-administered
- Number of items:
Long form: 30; Short form: 15
- Recall/Observation period:
Long form: now or within the past week; Short form: over the past week
Language(s)
- Original language:
English for the USA
- List of existing translations:
The translations listed below may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process and may require further work to be suitable for use in a study.
This list of translations is subject to constant changes, therefore please check the status of translations with MAPI Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors.
GDS
| Afrikaans* | French for France* | Japanese for Japan | Russian for Ukraine |
| Chinese | German for Austria* | Korean | Spanish for Spain* |
| Creole | German for Germany* | Lithuanian | Swedish for Sweden* |
| Danish for Denmark | Greek | Malay | Thai |
| Dutch for the Netherlands* | Hebrew | Maltese | Turkish for Turkey |
| English for the UK* | Hindi for India | Norwegian for Norway* | Ukrainian* |
| Farsi | Hungarian | Portuguese for Portugal | Vietnamese |
| Finnish for Finland* | Icelandic | Romanian* | Yiddish |
| French for Canada | Italian for Italy* | Russian for Russia* |
* Performed by the MAPI Institute
Bibliographic reference(s) of the original questionnaire
Brink TL. Proper scoring of the geriatric depression scale. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1989 Aug;37(8):819-20
Yesavage JA. Geriatric Depression Scale. Psychopharmacol Bull. 1988;24(4):709-11
Brink TL et al. Geriatric Depression Scale reliability: order, examiner and reminiscence effects. Clin Gerontol 1983;2:57-60
Last update: April 2012
Last update in collaboration with the author: April 2004
