Showing posts with label Quantiative Research. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quantiative Research. Show all posts

Saturday, February 21, 2009

Depression in Nursing Home Residents




Do you think your life is empty? This is the single question the researchers in this article use to examine depression in a sample of "care home residents with a high prevalence of dementia". The article is presented in a brief form. I would like you to examine the methods section and see if you can figure out how they conducted the study based on the information provided. Further, after reading the article, I would like you to discuss the use of the question "Do you think your life is empty" as a predictor of depression. Click the link to read the article.