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. 2010 Dec 28;26(9):899–907. doi: 10.1002/gps.2622

Table 2.

The validity of the brief Community Screening Instrument for Dementia (CSI-D) informant scale, cognitive scale and combined algorithm, by region

Region AUROC Optimal cutpoint Sensitivity (%) Specificity (%) Youden's index
Brief CSI-D informant scale
India 0.97 (0.94–0.99) >1 87.9 99.7 0.88
China 0.96 (0.93–0.98) >1 82.3 98.3 0.81
Latin America 0.96 (0.95–0.97) >1 94.7 92.6 0.87
Nigeria 1.00 (1.00–1.00) >2 100 100 1.00
Cuba (population) 0.92 (0.90–0.94) >1 76.4 93.1 0.70
Brief CSI-D cognitive scale
India 0.91 (0.88–0.93) <6/<7 72.4/86.5 93.5/81.8 0.66/0.68
China 0.92 (0.88–0.95) <6/<7 81.3/94.5 95.1/67.4 0.75/0.62
Latin America 0.90 (0.88–0.92) <6/<7 76.8/89.1 92.0/75.2 0.69/0.64
Nigeria 0.97 (0.94–1.00) <6/<7 95.0/100.0 97.4/97.2 0.92/0.97
Cuba (population) 0.88 (0.85–0.90) <6/<7 70.3/85.8 92.6/69.2 0.63/0.55
Brief CSI-D combined scale
India 0.98 (0.90–0.99) <5 97.3 90.5 0.88
China 0.99 (0.98–1.00) <5 93.5 94.4 0.88
Latin America 0.97 (0.97–0.98) <5 89.0 93.4 0.82
Nigeria 1.00 (1.00–1.00) <5 100 100 1.00
Cuba (population) 0.94 (0.93–0.96) <5/ <6 85.1/92.1 92.4/85.2 0.78/0.77