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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int Psychogeriatr. 2010 Sep 30;23(4):634–643. doi: 10.1017/S1041610210001808

Table 3.

Summary of informant accuracy and informant-patient agreement statistics

PATIENT DIAGNOSIS N SENSITIVITY SPECIFICITY MODIFIED KAPPA
Lifetime Major Depression 23 0.17 0.93 0.69
Lifetime Minor Depression 41 0.10 0.90 0.46
Lifetime Mood Disorder 64 0.31 0.89 0.39
Current Major Depression 8 0.25 0.96 0.86
Current Minor Depression 17 0.00 0.90 0.64
Current Mood Disorder 25 0.20 0.87 0.57

Note: Lifetime Mood Disorder is the sum of Lifetime Major Depression and Lifetime Minor Depression. Current Mood Disorder is the sum of Current Major Depression and Current Minor Depression. Patients could be in more than one category (e.g. current minor depression and lifetime major depression).