Chantal Ski
Associate Professor Chantal Ski is a psychologist and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Heart and Mind at the Australian Catholic University. She is also Honorary Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne. As a psychologist A/Prof Ski has extensive clinical and research experience in the psychosocial aspects of cardiovascular disease. This includes a number of review papers examining non-pharmacological interventions in a range of cardiac populations in journals such as Nature Review Cardiology, PLoS ONE, European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, JBI Database of Systematic Reviews and Heart, Lung and Circulation. Her major interests lie in the development and evaluation of brief novel psychosocial interventions for patients and their carers and developing and validating patient-reported outcome measures. A/Prof Ski has published widely on the psychometric evaluation of disease specific (cardiac) psychosocial measurement instruments e.g. Depression Scale-Short Form (DS-SF), Myocardial Infarction Dimensional Scale (MIDAS) and Cardiac Depression Scale (CDS). Furthermore, A/Prof Ski has expertise in evaluation of health service models of care for patients with cardiovascular disease and consults directly to Commonwealth and State Governments on policy-making processes on clinical guidelines and healthcare delivery teams. She currently leads a major program of three randomised controlled trials about translating research in practices for patients and carers after stroke, type one diabetes and renal disease.
Address: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Address: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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those with cognitive impairment and those in residential care. The current study was designed to determine the prevalence of
depression among older people in hostels with cognitive impairment using a structured diagnostic interview. A further aim
was to determine an appropriate screening instrument to detect depression within this population. It was also designed to
evaluate the extent to which depression among these older people had previously been detected.
Method Five commonly used depression scales were administered and compared to the results of the diagnostic interview.
Results The results demonstrated that 38.9% of older people were diagnosed with depression, but that only 50% of these
people had been previously diagnosed with this disorder. All scales showed some level of validity to detect depression.
Conclusions The implications of these findings for our understanding of depression among older people with cognitive
impairment are discussed. Copyright # 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
those with cognitive impairment and those in residential care. The current study was designed to determine the prevalence of
depression among older people in hostels with cognitive impairment using a structured diagnostic interview. A further aim
was to determine an appropriate screening instrument to detect depression within this population. It was also designed to
evaluate the extent to which depression among these older people had previously been detected.
Method Five commonly used depression scales were administered and compared to the results of the diagnostic interview.
Results The results demonstrated that 38.9% of older people were diagnosed with depression, but that only 50% of these
people had been previously diagnosed with this disorder. All scales showed some level of validity to detect depression.
Conclusions The implications of these findings for our understanding of depression among older people with cognitive
impairment are discussed. Copyright # 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.