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

Table 5 Item-Total Statistics of GDS-15

Items in GDS15	Scale Mean if Item Deleted	Scale Variance if Item Deleted	Corrected Item-Total Correlation	Cronbach’s Alpha if Item Deleted
Item 1^a	4.2652	7.239	.427	.689
Item 2	4.2545	7.478	.292	.703
Item 3^a	4.1004	6.889	.453	.682
Item 4^a	3.9283	6.973	.381	.692
Item 5	4.2867	7.421	.359	.696
Item 6	4.0215	7.000	.380	.692
Item 7^a	4.1685	7.112	.394	.691
Item 8	4.3011	7.449	.366	.696
Item 9^b	4.2222	7.735	.147	.718
Item 10	3.8674	7.274	.265	.707
Item 11^b	4.3978	8.053	.146	.714
Item 12	4.1470	7.183	.349	.696
Item 13^b	3.8387	7.481	.189	.717
Item 14^a	4.0430	6.905	.425	.686
Item 15^b	4.1792	7.565	.200	.713

^aItems of GDS-15 resulting in a “decrease” in the alpha if deleted (items for new GDS-5),
^bItems of GDS-15 resulting in an “increase” in the alpha if deleted