Unrecognized geriatric depression in the emergency Department of a Teaching Hospital in Nepal: prevalence, contributing factors, and metric properties of 5 item geriatric depression scale in this population

BACKGROUND: Depression is prevalent but poorly recognized in the Emergency Department (ED). We aimed to identify the frequency of unrecognized geriatric depression and its possible determinants in the ED using the 15-item geriatric depression scale (GDS). We also aimed to explore the performance of...

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Publié dans:BMC Psychiatry
Auteurs principaux: Shrestha, Roshana, Shrestha, Anmol Purna, Shrestha, Abha, Kamholz, Barbara
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: BioMed Central 2020
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7656752/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33176730
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-020-02910-8
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