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. 2010 Jun 8;10:39. doi: 10.1186/1471-2377-10-39

Table 3.

MS-Q questionnaire validity properties being the diagnosis of reference that obtained according to clinical judgment -IHS in overall and by gender samples.

In the overall sample, according to IHS criteria Validity of MS-Q questionnaire

Kappa Sensitivity Specificity PPV NPV PPR NPR
Overall
 Original database
(N = 8.073)
0.82* 0.82 (0.81 - 0.84) 0.97 (0.97 - 0.97) 0.90 (0.89 - 0.91) 0.94 (0.94 - 0.95) 27.66 (23.93 - 31.97) 0.18 (0.17 - 0.20)
 Depurated database
(N = 7.528)
0.84* 0.82 (0.81 -- 0.84) 0.98 (0.98 - 0.99) 0.95 (0.94 -- 0.96) 0.94 (0.93 - 0.95) 49.00 (40.02 -- 60.01) 0.18 (0.16 - 0.20)

Gender
 Male
(N = 3.076)
0.79* 0.77 (0.73 - 0.81) 0.98 (0.98 - 0.99) 0.88 (0.85 - 0.91) 0.96
(0.94 --0.95)
44.08 (32.85 -- 59.16) 0.24 (0.20 -- 0.28)
 Female
(N = 4.997)
0.82* 0.84 (0.82 -0.86) 0.96 (0.95 - 0.97) 0.91
(0.89 - 0.92)
0.94 (0.93 - 0.95) 21.32 (18.06 - 25.17) 0.17 (0.15 - 0.19)

PPV: Positive Predictive Value; NPV: Negative Predictive Value; PPR: Positive Probability Ratio; NPR: Negative Probability Ratio. * p < 0.001