China has entered an era of aging. Early screening of depression symptoms in empty-nesters
is conducive to follow-up assessment and intervention. Through literature review and scale analysis, the
depression assessment tools of empty-nesters can be divided into two-dimensional structure assessment,
three-dimensional structure assessment, four-dimensional structure assessment and multi-dimensional
structure assessment. At present, there is not only a lack of depression evaluation tools specifically for
the empty-nesters, but also a discussion on the preparation of the empty-nesters depression assessment
questionnaires, such as the wording effect.