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Psychic and somatic symptoms of depression among young adults, institutionalized aged and noninstitutionalized aged
Robert Zemore,Nancy Eames +1 more
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Results were interpreted as providing no support for the widely belief that the aged are more depressed than any other age group, and it was argued that somatic complaints can be valid indicators of depression in the elderly.Abstract:
Beck Depression Inventory scores were obtained from 48 elderly who had been residing in homes for the aged for more than one year, 31 elderly residing in the community and waiting to enter an old-age home, and 424 young adults enrolled in a fist-year psychology course. The residents of old-age homes reported no more symptoms of depression than the waiting-list controls, a finding that provides no support for the hypothesis that the institional nature of old-age homes increases depression in the elderly. Both the institutionalized and noninstitutionalized aged reported more somatic symptoms of depression than the young adults, but no greater cognitive or affective symptoms of depression. These results were interpreted as providing no support for the widely belief that the aged are more depressed than any other age group. Finally, it was argued that somatic complaints can be valid indicators of depression in the elderly if normative differences between young and old are taken into account.read more
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Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory: Twenty-five years of evaluation
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of the BDI's internal consistency estimates yielded a mean coefficient alpha of 0.86 for psychiatric patients and 0.81 for non-psychiatric subjects as mentioned in this paper.
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Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) As a Screening Instrument for Depression Among Community-Residing Older Adults
TL;DR: There was no significant degradation in the ability of the CES-D to screen for depression among community-residing elderly adults, and the sample did not include participants with the more disabling forms of cognitive or functional impairment and physical illness.
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Meta‐analysis of the factor structures of four depression questionnaires: Beck, CES‐D, Hamilton, and Zung
TL;DR: Metaanalysis results suggest that the specific depression symptom factors within each test appear to be relatively robust and well established and match fairly closely previously hypothesized factor structures.
Adaptación española del Inventario para la Depresión de Beck-II (BDI-II): 2. Propiedades psicométricas en población general The spanish adaptation of Beck's Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II): 2. Psychometric properties in the general population
TL;DR: The first study that provides normative data, reliability and factor validity for the Spanish adaptation of Beck's Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) with a sample of 470 Spanish community adults was presented in this paper.
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The relationship between age and depressive symptoms in two national surveys.
TL;DR: There is a consistent, but quite modest, nonlinear association between age, somatic, and nonsomatic depressive symptoms in both surveys.
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