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Data from five psychiatric populations and a community sample are presented on the CES-D, 20-item self-report depression symptom scale developed by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies. Results show that the scale is a sensitive tool for detecting depressive symptoms and change in symptoms over time in psychiatric populations, and that it agrees quite well with more lengthy self-report scales used in clinical studies and with clinician interview ratings. Although a symptom scale cannot differentiate between diagnositc groups, the CES-D has demonstrated its validity as a screening tool for detecting depressive symptoms in psychiatric populations.
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PMID:Assessing depressive symptoms in five psychiatric populations: a validation study. 90 Jan 19

In this paper, we examine the performance of a pencil-and-paper screening questionnaire on depressive symptoms (the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, or CES-D) in a sample of 120 adult American Indians belonging to a single Northwest Coast tribe. Results of factor analyses suggest that somatic complaints and emotional distress are not well differentiated from each other in this population. CES-D scores (which have shown good sensitivity and specificity for depressive disorders in this sample) also show weak and apparently nonsignificant trends to be elevated in the presence of other psychiatric diagnoses (including alcoholism) or general impairment. However, because of the use of a convenience sample (rather than a probability sample), analyses of associations between study factors--including comorbidity--are liable to produce spurious results due to selection bias (including Berkson bias). On this basis, we suggest that the use of probability samples should assume a high priority in cross-cultural studies. The study of the entire population of interest is another solution to the sampling problem, particularly in small communities.
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PMID:Use of the CES-D in an American Indian village. 130 29

To assess the influence of depressive symptoms (defined using the CES-D) on weight change, we analysed data from 1794 adults, aged 25-74 years, who participated in the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 1971-1975 and the National Health Epidemiologic Follow-up Study in 1982-1984. After adjusting for baseline covariates using multiple linear regression, the data show that younger men (< 55 years) who were depressed at baseline gained nearly 3 kg more over the follow-up period than those who were not depressed. Among these younger men, however, education modified the effect of depression on weight change; those with < 12 years of education gained more weight with depression than those with more education (6.2 vs. 1.2 kg, respectively; P < or = 0.01). In contrast, depressed younger women gained slightly less weight than those who were not depressed. Among younger women, education also modified the effects of depression on weight change; those with < 12 years of education gained less weight with depression than those with more education (-3.2 vs. 0.6 kg, respectively; P < or = 0.01). Among older people (> or = 55 years), both men and women who were depressed lost more weight than those who were not depressed. Depression may play a substantial role in the patterns of weight change among adults in the United States. These patterns of weight change may contribute to the adverse health effects associated with depression.
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PMID:Depressive symptoms and weight change in a national cohort of adults. 133 Sep 54

The aim of this paper is to assess the influence of selected psychosocial factors as predictors of stroke incidence in a probability sample of noninstitutionalized elderly. The main psychosocial factor of interest was depression. Marital status, social support, social networks, and religiousness were also assessed as potential antecedent or mediating factors. The data were obtained from a prospective longitudinal study based on 2,812 individuals aged 65 years and over living in New Haven, Connecticut. The incidence of stroke was monitored from the baseline interview in 1982 until December 1988. Depression, measured by the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), was measured at baseline as were other predictor variables. Univariate Cox regression analyses revealed that higher CES-D scores were predictive of greater stroke incidence (p < 0.05). More frequent attendance at religious services was associated with lower incidence (p < 0.001). CES-D scores were also correlated with many measures of sociodemographic, health, and physical function factors in our multivariate analysis (p < 0.05). When combined with other significant predictor variables such as age, sex, hypertension, diabetes, physical function, and smoking, neither depression nor religious attendance retained its significance.
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PMID:Depressive symptoms and other psychosocial factors as predictors of stroke in the elderly. 144 54

Symptoms of depression are frequently reported by people with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). To advance our understanding of how best to assess and treat these symptoms, their meaning must be elucidated. This article explores two possible meanings for the emotional distress of RA patients reported on the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) scale: (1) Certain CES-D scale items may inflate actual depressive symptom scores. (2) Depressive symptoms are experienced and/or expressed in unique ways in an RA population due to the presence of chronic physical symptoms. In this study of 988 people with RA, it was found that there is some modest inflation of the CES-D scale due to the items of "having difficulty getting going" and "everything was an effort." However, irrespective of the modest inflation of the scale, there is evidence that distress in RA is not a static concept. Distress in this RA population was expressed differently from that of a community population, and within the RA population, distress was expressed differently over time.
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PMID:Characterizing the meaning of psychological distress in rheumatoid arthritis. 145 94

A sample of 339 adolescents from the school population of three social classes in Guatemala City were administered a modified version of the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale for Children (CES-DC-M). Of the total sample, 35.1% were found to be depressed. A two-way analysis of variance (gender by social class) showed differences which approached statistical significance and reflected a significant main effect of gender but not social class. Implications of the findings are discussed.
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PMID:Depression in Guatemalan adolescents. 147 58

Depressive symptomatology was examined in a large sample of noninstitutionalized older adults using the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression scale (CES-D). Both cross-sectional and longitudinal data showed age-related increases in mean CES-D scores and increases in the percentage of respondents scoring at or above the cutoff score of 16. Variables collected at baseline in the longitudinal study from 2,032 participants 65 years of age and older were significant predictors of depressive symptomatology 3 and 6 years later. Baseline CES-D scores accounted for the largest proportion of the variance.
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PMID:Increases in depressive symptomatology in the rural elderly: results from a cross-sectional and longitudinal study. 150 May 97

103 college students took the Geriatric Depression Scale and Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale along with five measures of life satisfaction. The correlation between scores on the first scales was .66. Both depression scales had moderate negative correlations (-.34 to -.71) with each measure of life satisfaction. However, on every measure of life satisfaction, the correlation with scores on the Geriatric Depression Scale was higher than with those on the CES-Depression Scale.
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PMID:Assessment of depression in college students: Geriatric Depression Scale versus Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. 152 49

This study examined the correlations of 21 variables categorized into sociodemographic, subjective quality of life, stress, problem behavior, and health behavior predictors of at-risk and low-risk depressive symptomatology for a sample of 1056 adolescents attending public school. Discriminant function analysis showed lower life satisfaction, higher stress, and perceived unattractiveness as major discriminating variables for at-risk (CES-Depression score greater than 23) versus low-risk depressed adolescents. Only two problem behaviors were significant, smoking for girls and hard drug use for boys.
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PMID:Stress, health-related behavior and quality of life on depressive symptomatology in a sample of adolescents. 152 54

PAQUID is an epidemiologic prospective study of mental and functional aging. A sample of 4,050 community-dwelling individuals, aged 65 and over, was randomly selected from electoral lists of 37 parishes of Gironde after stratification by age, sex, and size of urban unit; 68.9 percent agreed to participate. Baseline information was obtained from a one-hour home interview. Health measures included ADL, IADL, mobility, Rosow scale, and two subjective health assessments. Depressive symptomatology was assessed by the CES-D scale and cognitive functioning by Folstein's MMS. Dependence rates vary from 9.7 percent to 71.9 percent according to the indicator under consideration. Cross-sectional correlations with dependence are significant for age, sex, education, rural setting, joint pain, dyspnea, hearing and visual impairment, MMS score, and depression. In logistic regressions, only dyspnea, MMS score, and depression are always significantly correlated with dependence, whichever the indicator.
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PMID:Health measures correlates in a French elderly community population: the PAQUID study. 153 80


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