The Geriatric Depression Scale should be shortened: results of Rasch analysis
International Journal of Geriatric PsychiatryPublished 1 January 2005
Wai Kwong Tang, Eric Wong, Helen Chiu, CM Lum, Gábor S. Ungvári
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The purpose of this study was to examine the unidimensionality, item fit, redundancy and differential item functioning (DIF) of the 15‐item version of the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) in a community sample of 300 Hong Kong Chinese patients with pneumoconiosis.
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Although the GDS was overall unidimensional, there was evidence of item redundancy indicating that a shortened version would be as adequate as the original version.
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