TY - JOUR
T1 - Brief reports : a brief version of the geriatric depression scale for the Chinese
AU - CHENG, Sheung Tak
AU - CHAN, Cheung Ming, Alfred
PY - 2004/6/1
Y1 - 2004/6/1
N2 - Elderly persons (N = 310) attending outpatient psychiatric clinics were given an interview on the 30-item Geriatric Depression Scale (T. L. Brink et al., 1982; J. A. Yesavage et al., 1983) and received an independent psychiatric evaluation. A 3-step binary logistic regression showed that 2 items measuring positive affect and 2 others measuring negative affect combined to produce diagnostic performance comparable with the full scale. This result was cross-validated on a different sample (N = 134). A hierarchical measurement model in which the 4 items tapped 2 first-order factors (positive and negative affect), which in turn tapped a higher order construct of depression, provided excellent fit to the data.
AB - Elderly persons (N = 310) attending outpatient psychiatric clinics were given an interview on the 30-item Geriatric Depression Scale (T. L. Brink et al., 1982; J. A. Yesavage et al., 1983) and received an independent psychiatric evaluation. A 3-step binary logistic regression showed that 2 items measuring positive affect and 2 others measuring negative affect combined to produce diagnostic performance comparable with the full scale. This result was cross-validated on a different sample (N = 134). A hierarchical measurement model in which the 4 items tapped 2 first-order factors (positive and negative affect), which in turn tapped a higher order construct of depression, provided excellent fit to the data.
UR - http://commons.ln.edu.hk/sw_master/2462
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=3042520739&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1037/1040-3590.16.2.182
DO - 10.1037/1040-3590.16.2.182
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
C2 - 15222814
SN - 1040-3590
VL - 16
SP - 182
EP - 186
JO - Psychological Assessment
JF - Psychological Assessment
IS - 2
ER -