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Table 6 Assessment of original and proposed GDS-5 accuracy in relation to the GDS-15

From: 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

 

GDS-15 n (%)

Depressed (n = 128)

Not depressed (n = 152)

Original GDS-5

 Depressed (n = 103)

97 (75.8)

6 (3.9)

 Not depressed (n = 177)

31 (24.2)

146 (96.1)

Proposed GDS-5

 Depressed (n = 139)

116 (90.6)

23 (15.1)

 Not depressed (n = 141)

12 (9.4)

129 (84.9)