The MMSE is not an adequate screening cognitive instrument in studies of late-life depression

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The center for epidemiological studies depression scale (CES-D) is an adequate screening instrument for depressive and anxiety disorders in a very old population living in residential homes

✍ Els Dozeman; Digna J. F. van Schaik; Harm W. J. van Marwijk; Max L. Stek; Henrie 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 163 KB 👁 2 views

## Abstract ## Objective The CES‐D is an instrument that is commonly used to screen for depression in community‐based studies of the elderly, but the characteristics of the CES‐D in a residential home population have not yet been studied. The aim of this study was to investigate the criterion vali