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Validation of the Quality of Life in Depression Scale in a population of adult depressive patients aged 60 and above.

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Grégoire, Jacques [UCL] de Leval, Nicole [UCL] Mesters, P. Czarka, M

The aim of this study is to evaluate the validity of the Dutch version of the Quality of Life in Depression Scale (QLDS) in a population of depressive patients aged 60 years and over, who were seen on an outpatient basis by psychiatrists in the Flemish region of Belgium. A sample of severely depressive patients was followed during an eight-week medical treatment. During this period, each patient was evaluated four times with the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and with the QLDS. We observed that the QLDS was very sensitive to the failing of the quality of life in depressive states. The QLDS was also a very good measure of change during the improvement of depressives states. Furthermore, the scale appears to be very homogeneous across the depressive states range. The results are very encouraging, and constitute strong corroboration of the construct validity of the scale.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Journal Article
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 1994
Journal information "Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation" - Vol. 3, no. 1, p. 13-9 (1994)
Peer reviewed yes
issn 0962-9343
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL
MESH Subject Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Analysis of Variance ; Depression - drug therapy - psychology ; Female ; Fluoxetine - therapeutic use ; Humans ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Psychological Tests ; Quality of Life ; Reproducibility of Results ; Sensitivity and Specificity
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Bibliographic reference Grégoire, Jacques ; de Leval, Nicole ; Mesters, P. ; Czarka, M. Validation of the Quality of Life in Depression Scale in a population of adult depressive patients aged 60 and above.. In: Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation, Vol. 3, no. 1, p. 13-9 (1994)
Permanent URL http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/12017