Screening for Depression in Well Older Adults: Evaluation of a Short Form of the CES-D

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Randomized trial demonstrates good predictive accuracy of the CESD-10 in older adults, suggesting effective screening for depression.

The CESD-10 screening questionnaire accurately identifies depressive symptoms, yielding a predictive accuracy of 0.97.
Cutoff scores for depressive symptoms were determined as ≥16 for the full-length CES-D and ≥10 for the CESD-10.
Assessment using the CESD-10 showed strong correlations with health status and positive affect, with r = .37 and r = —.63 respectively. Just a single measure isn’t enough; follow-up after 12 months also showed stability, with r = .59.

Andresen et al. (1994) studied this question.

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