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. 2005 Dec 14;5:46. doi: 10.1186/1471-244X-5-46

Table 3.

Classification of patients with eventual GAD and MDE.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAS-Q Positive 73/1,238 = 5.9%) Major Depressive Episode (DSQ Positive 125/1,385 = 9.0%)
Patients' HADS-A ≥ 8 GPs' CGI-S ≥ 3 Patients' HADS-D ≥ 8 GPs' CGI-S ≥ 3
Sensitivity / Specificity 0.89 / 0.75 0.52 / 0.85 0.80 / 0.88 0.79 / 0.81

Classification % (95% CI) % (95% CI) % (95% CI) % (95% CI)
True positive disorder 5.3 (4.1–6.5)* 3.1 (2.1–4.1) 7.2 (5.8–8.6) 7.1 (5.7–8.5)
False positive disorder 23.5 (21.1–25.9)* 14.1 (12.2–16.0) 10.9 (9.3–12.5) 17.3 (15.3–19.3)*
Observed disordered 28.8 (26.3–31.3)* 17.2 (15.1–19.3) 18.1 (16.1–20.1) 24.4 (22.1–26.7)*
True positive healthy 70.6 (68.1–73.1) 80.0 (77.8–82.2)* 80.1 (78.0–82.2)* 73.7 (71.4–76.0)
False positive healthy 0.6 (0.2–1.0) 2.8 (1.9–3.7)* 1.8 (1.1–2.5) 1.9 (1.2–2.6)
Observed healthy 71.2 (68.7–73.7) 82.8 (80.7–84.9)* 81.9 (79.9–83.9)* 75.6 (73.3–77.9)
Total rightly classified 75.9 (73.5–78.3) 83.1 (81.0–85.2)* 87.3 (85.5–89.1)* 80.8 (78.7–82.9)
Total wrongly classified 24.1 (21.7–26.5)* 16.9 (14.8–19.0) 12.7 (10.9–14.5) 19.2 (17.1–21.3)*

*The difference shows a statistical significance of p ≤ 0.05