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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Mar 31.
Published in final edited form as: Evid Based Pract Child Adolesc Ment Health. 2023 Mar 31;8(2):1–11. doi: 10.1080/23794925.2023.2191354

Table 2.

Sensitivity, Specificity, Positive Predictive Value (PPV), Negative Predictive Value (NPV), and Accuracy for the Motor tic, Obsession and compulsion, and Vocal tic Evaluation Survey (MOVES) compared with expert clinical assessment by cutoffs

Cutoff Sensitivity Specificity Youden Index TP FP FN TN Accuracy
0 100% 0% 0.00 144 73 0 0 66%
1 100% 33% 0.33 144 49 24 0 77%
2 99% 44% 0.42 142 41 32 2 80%
3 97% 63% 0.60 139 27 46 5 85%
4 93% 70% 0.63 134 22 51 10 85%
5* 90% 77% 0.66 129 17 56 15 85%
6 86% 79% 0.66 124 15 58 20 84%
7 82% 84% 0.66 118 12 61 26 82%
8 78% 84% 0.62 113 12 61 31 80%
9 76% 86% 0.62 109 10 63 35 79%
10 74% 90% 0.64 106 7 66 38 79%
11 69% 90% 0.60 100 7 66 44 76%
12 67% 93% 0.60 96 5 68 48 76%
13 59% 96% 0.55 85 3 70 59 71%
14 52% 97% 0.49 75 2 71 69 67%
15 47% 99% 0.45 67 1 72 77 64%
20 28% 100% 0.28 41 0 73 103 53%
25 18% 100% 0.18 26 0 73 118 46%
35 9% 100% 0.09 13 0 73 131 40%
45 1% 100% 0.01 1 0 73 143 34%

TP=true positives; FP=false positives; FN=false negatives; TN=true negative;

*

We identified a cut-off of 5 as optimal for balancing sensitivity and specificity; Other cutoffs may be chosen based on the intended use of the screener.