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. 2003 Dec;96(12):577–581. doi: 10.1258/jrsm.96.12.577

Table 2.

The Edinburgh Depression Scale with use of Present State Examination interview to identify cases of depression according to ICD 10 criteria

Threshold scores
8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
Sensitivity (%) 100 100 100 95 86 81 68 50 50
Specificity (%) 31 37 52 61 66 79 85 89 94
PPV (%) 29 31 36 42 42 53 55 58 73
NPV (%) 100 100 100 97 94 94 91 86 86

ICD=International Classification of Diseases; PPV, NPV=positive and negative predictive values