Cornell Scale For Depression In Dementia

Mental depression or the state or having serious mood disorder especially for the acute mental disease known as dementia is highly increasing to the recent years due to the problematic and complex world that most of the people have right now. Some of the disordered people with weak self esteem or firm personality find difficulty on making adjustments and blending out to the outer world. Serious mental depression due to dementia is a form of serious disease that also needs proper medical diagnosis because its level and effects to a particular subject vary. In the developed medical world, several psychogeriatric depression rating scales are being made as basis to asses the extent of depression. Some of these rating scales are the GDS that stands for Geriatric Depression Scale and the Cornell Depression Scale or CSDD.

Before the scales of rating like Geriatric Depression Scale and the Cornell Depression Scale are proved to be confirmed reliable by the experts they first undergo a testing method or what people formally used to call validation study. Through these different types of scales the theories within these two types of mental depression scales will be tested on actual subjects. The actual validation study of mental health involves around one hundred forty five mentally depressed patients above sixty five years of age are tested through interview. Out of the arranged interview that was conducted by the experts, they deduced that seventy three of the subjects are depressed only and thirty three are depressed and demented.

Analyzing and proper summarizing all the disordered facts gathered, the Geriatric Depression Scale had a perfect correlation but Cornell Depression Scale or CSDD has a better scale with sensitivity and specificity of ninety three percent and ninety seven percent. On the end part it was held that Cornell scale for depression and dementia is the valid and specific screening tool to access severe mental depression in a demented population. With the help of the Cornell Depression Scale or CSDD, doctors and psychiatrist today find it easy to access patients undergoing severe mental depression or depression and dementia. The depression scale aids easy and proper understanding of the mental state or condition of the patient thus giving psychologist doctors clue on the needed treatment and mental therapy of the patient.

This rating scale on severe mental depression is very significant because it discovered the true state of the depression patient, and every state needs special and different degree of attention and medical treatment. Certainly the patients undergoing lower or average depression scale and needs lower attention and medication compared to the once under serious stage of dementia. Aside from the proven Cornell Depression Scale or CSDD, some other developed screening tools and depression therapies are being studied because of the growing problem on depression. People want to get the best medicinal therapy that that could cure and uplift the person's original personality and immediately minimize the depression cases of mood disorders and make every person flexible and adjustable to the varying situation in the world.

• Matt Thompson
• 24/03/2009, 6:59 AM
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