Table 3.

Responsiveness of instruments to improvement in depression

Utility instrument	Area under the ROC curve	95% confidence interval
EQ-5D-3L	0.71	0.66 – 0.76
EQ-5D VAS	0.68	0.63 – 0.74
SF-6D	0.81	0.76 – 0.85
SF-12 new algorithm	0.80	0.76 – 0.85

p-value<0.0001 for test of equality of the AUCs.