Mexican Health and Age Study (MHAS) Geriatric Depression Screener
| Information about Measure | |
|---|---|
| First Name | Sara |
| Last Name | Gloria Aguilar-Navarro |
| Not Available | |
| Affiliation | Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán |
| Other means of contacting author (e.g., website, Academia.edu, ResearchGate) | — |
| Mental health assessment tool that was adapted/developed/validated | Mexican Health and Age Study (MHAS) Geriatric Depression Screener |
| Mental health condition assessed | Depressive Disorders |
| Idiom of distress included, if any | Not Applicable |
| Lifestage of interest | Elderly |
| Age range (age – age) | 65 + |
| Country or countries where tool was developed/adapted/validated | Mexico |
| Language(s) of the adapted/developed/validated tool | Spanish |
| Clinical or community sample? | Community |
| Subpopulation in which tool was developed/validated (e.g., tool was developed and tested among middle-class women)? | Individuals older than 65 without evidence of cognitive deficits. |
| Development procedures | locally-developed,validated |
| If validated, what was the gold standard? | DSM-IV-TR and Yesavage’s 15-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS-15) |
| Description of other development procedures, if applicable | — |
| Cronbach’s alpha | 0.74 |
| Sensitivity | 0.687 |
| Spec | 0.807 |
| Other information about tool (e.g., additional psychometrics [NPV, PPV, Youden’s index, diagnostic odds ratio]) | Intra-class correlation coefficient = 0.933. |
| Citations of development/adaptation/validation studies and/or previous studies using the tool | Aguilar-Navarro, S. G., Fuentes-Cantú, A., Ávila-Funes, J. A., & García-Mayo, E. J. (2007). Validez y confiabilidad del cuestionario del ENASEM para la depresión en adultos mayores. Salud Pública De México, 49(4), 256–262. |
| Notes when administering the tool | The tool was developed as part of a national survey of health and aging. The tool may be administered by trained researchers or clinicians that can read and write Spanish. The tool is scored using equal weights for each question that is answered with an affirmative or positive yes/no response (indicated in bold on the tool form). |