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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Psychiatr Res. 2010 Jun 9;45(2):213–219. doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2010.05.017

Table 4.

Comparative Performance of Depression Rating Scales at First Visit vs. Subsequent Visits

Rating Scale Epocha First Visits (n=356)
 Subsequent Visits (n=2474)
SCID MDE Criteria AUC of ROC Optimal Cut-pointb Sensitivity & Specificity SCID MDE Criteria AUC of ROC Optimal Cut-pointb Sensitivity & Specificity
Yes No Total Sens. Spec. Yes No Total Sens. Spec.
HRSD17 PC 6 51 0.851 15 1.696 0.833 0.863 10 150 0.990 16 1.947 1.000 0.947
T1 38 84 0.862 15 1.630 0.868 0.762 20 201 0.849 14 1.551 0.750 0.801
T2 52 80 0.880 15 1.629 0.904 0.725 67 465 0.857 14 1.570 0.761 0.809
T3 21 21 0.861 15 1.571 0.905 0.667 42 403 0.847 13 1.575 0.833 0.742
Overall 117 236 0.877 15 1.648 0.889 0.759 139 1219 0.866 14 1.595 0.784 0.811
HRSD21 PC 6 50 0.832 15 1.693 0.833 0.860 10 150 0.986 17 1.960 1.000 0.960
T1 38 83 0.856 16 1.599 0.816 0.783 20 200 0.843 13 1.575 0.850 0.725
T2 52 79 0.886 17 1.630 0.808 0.823 67 461 0.856 15 1.579 0.761 0.818
T3 21 20 0.856 22 1.614 0.714 0.900 42 403 0.846 16 1.587 0.738 0.849
Overall 117 232 0.876 15 1.610 0.889 0.721 139 1214 0.864 15 1.592 0.770 0.822
BDI PC 6 46 0.846 12 1.652 1.000 0.652 10 148 0.982 17 1.932 1.000 0.932
T1 33 72 0.877 18 1.654 0.848 0.806 19 187 0.871 15 1.666 0.842 0.824
T2 42 68 0.866 19 1.626 0.714 0.912 58 423 0.901 13 1.683 0.879 0.804
T3 17 17 0.824 12 1.588 0.941 0.647 34 353 0.857 12 1.566 0.824 0.742
Overall 98 203 0.871 19 1.587 0.735 0.852 121 1111 0.893 13 1.646 0.851 0.795
EPDS PC 0 8 NAc NA NA NA NA 6 49 0.998 16 1.980 1.000 0.980
T1 11 20 0.868 17 1.636 0.636 1.000 10 73 0.928 13 1.690 0.800 0.890
T2 12 23 0.873 17 1.580 0.667 0.913 23 165 0.860 6 1.533 1.000 0.533
T3 0 1 NA NA NA NA NA 6 101 0.959 15 1.814 0.833 0.980
Overall 23 52 0.849 17 1.614 0.652 0.962 45 388 0.907 13 1.623 0.733 0.889
a

Perinatal Epochs: PC=preconception; T1=first trimester; T2=second trimester; T3=third trimester

b

Optimal Cutpoint: The cutpoint is the score such that greater or equal scores are considered consistent with the presence of a major depressive episode. The optimal cutpoint is the cutpoint score that maximizes the sum of sensitivity and specificity.

c

Not applicable when the number of subjects satisfying MDE criteria is 0.