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. 2020 Mar 26;22(3):e17282. doi: 10.2196/17282

Table 3.

Concordance between the interviewer and SMS text messaging assessments.

Measurement Interviewer assessment, mean (SD) SMS text messaging assessment, mean (SD) Pa value Intraclass correlation coefficient Kappa valueb Area under the receiver operating characteristic curve Sensitivityb Specificityb
Depression

Patient Health Questionnaire (2-item) 0.67 (1.27) 1.23 (1.79) .13 0.32 0.19 0.84 0.34 0.89

Patient Health Questionnaire (8-item) 3.29 (4.47) 3.89 (4.20) .39 0.73 0.43 0.93 0.60 0.86
Anxiety (2-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale) 0.97 (1.49) 1.16 (1.63) .64 0.54 0.35 0.76 0.50 0.89
Functional disability (Sheehan Disability Scale) 8.09 (6.40) 6.83 (8.03) .16 0.54 0.13 0.94 0.59 1.00

aP value was calculated by using a paired t test.

bThe kappa statistic, sensitivity, and specificity were evaluated using a cutoff point of 3 for the 2-item Patient Health Questionnaire and 2-item Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale, 8 for the 8-item Patient Health Questionnaire, and 12 for the Sheehan Disability Scale.