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. 2009 Jan 26;9:38. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-38

Table 3.

Attitude toward treatment adherence as a proxy measurement of Treatment adherence with pill count as gold standard.

ATTITUDES TOWARD TREATMENT ADHERENCE TREATMENT ADHERENCE

Good Poor
Positive 63 144 207
Negative 47 153 200

110 297 407

Sensitivity (95% CI): 57.2% (47.4–66.6)

Specificity (95% CI): 51.5% (45.6–57.3)

Positive predictive value (95% CI): 30.4% (24.2–37.1)

Negative predictive value (95% CI): 76.5% (70.0–82.1)

Positive likelihood ratio (95% CI): 1.18 (0.97–1.44)

Negative likelihood ratio (95% CI): 0.83 (0.65–1.06)

Pre-test odds (95% CI): 0.36 (0.28–0.44)

Positive post-test odds (95% CI): 0.42 (0.27–0.63)

Positive post-test probability (95% CI): 0.29 (0.21–0.38)

Negative post-test odds (95% CI): 0.29 (0.18–0.46)

Negative post-test probability (95% CI): 0.22 (0.15–0.31)