Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia.

CSDD

What it measures

Depression severity in people with dementia across 5 domains - mood-related signs, behavioural disturbance, physical signs, cyclic functions, and ideational disturbance

Length and format

19 items. clinician 3-pt severity ratings (absent / mild-intermittent / severe), integrating separate interviews with the caregiver and the patient (clinician-rated/interview)

Language versions

20+ langs with published validations (DE, NL, ES, IT, PT, SV, NO, ZH, JA, KO, TR, PL among them; approx)

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

open with attribution

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Reference

Alexopoulos, G.S., Abrams, R.C., Young, R.C., & Shamoian, C.A. (1988). Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia. Biological Psychiatry, 23(3), 271-284.