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. 2019 Mar 25;5(4):228–238. doi: 10.1159/000497352

Table 3.

Characteristics of screening and diagnostic tests in comparison to BDI-II (gold standard)

PHQ-2 ≥ 1 (screening test) PHQ-2 = 2 PHQ-2: Q1 (depressive mood) PHQ-2: Q2 (anhedonia) BDI-FS-Fr and BDI-II (diagnostic test)
Sensitivity, % 64 79 63 79 83
CI: 50–77 CI: 57–91 CI: 47–76 CI: 60–91 IC: 66–93
Specificity, % 92 79 87 82 89
CI: 83–97 CI: 69–86 CI: 77–93 CI: 73–89 IC:80–94
Likelihood ratios positive 8.25 3.74 4.79 4.49 7.31
CI: 3.46–19.67 CI: 2.36–5.94 CI: 2.49–9.22 CI: 2.71–7.42 IC: 3.88–13.81
Likelihood ratios negative 0.39 0.27 0.43 0.25 0.19
CI: 0.26–0.58 CI: 0.11–0.64 CI: 0.29–0.65 CI: 0.12–0.56 IC: 0.08–0.42
Diagnostics odds ratio 21.39 14.01 11.11 17.73 38.89
CI: 7.13–64.13 CI: 4.164–47.16 CI: 4.30–28.70 CI: 5.72–5.01 IC:11.89–127.16
Positive predictive value, % 85.29 44.12 73.53 55.88 73.53
CI: 69.87–93.55 CI: 28.88–60.55 CI: 56.88–85.40 CI: 39.45–71.12 IC: 56.88–85.40
Negative predictive value, % 78.67 94.67 80.00 93.33 93.33
CI: 68.12–86.42 CI: 87.07–97.91 CI: 69.58–87.49 CI: 85.32–97.12 IC: 85.3–97.12
Prevalence, % 41.28 17.43 36.70 22.02 27.52
Accuracy, % 80.73 78.90 78.00 81.65 0.87
Accuracy +, % 73 57 68 66 0.78
Accuracy −, % 85 86 83 88 0.91
Youden ' s index 0.57 0.58 0.49 0.62 0.72
Yule ' s Q coefficient 0.91 0.87 0.83 0.89 0.95
χ2 39.48 24.45 28.86 33.00 52.43

CI, confidence interval (95%).