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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Asia Pac Psychiatry. 2016 Nov 7;9(3):10.1111/appy.12266. doi: 10.1111/appy.12266

Table 3. Sensitivity, specificity, and likelihood ratios at various cutoff points of the PHQ-9 (n=81).

PHQ-9 score Sensitivity Specificity LR+ LR-
≥5.00 0.95 0.53 2.03 0.10
≥6.00 0.95 0.65 2.67 0.08
≥7.00 0.95 0.69 3.09 0.08
≥8.00 0.89 0.74 3.47 0.14
≥9.00 0.89 0.79 4.27 0.13
≥10.00 0.74 0.85 5.08 0.31
≥11.00 0.63 0.92 7.83 0.40
≥12.00 0.53 0.94 8.16 0.51
≥13.00 0.47 0.94 7.34 0.56
≥14.00 0.42 0.97 13.05 0.60
≥15.00 0.37 0.97 11.42 0.65

LR+=positive likelihood ratio, LR-=negative likelihood ratio, PHQ-9=Patient Health Questionnaire.