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. 2018 May 2;148(5):790–797. doi: 10.1093/jn/nxy045

Table 6.

Accuracy of indicators for classifying mean probability of adequacy >0.60 for pregnant adolescent girls and women1

Food group cutoff2 Pregnant adolescent girls (n =162) Pregnant women (n = 438)
Sensitivity Specificity Total correctly classified Positive predictive value Sensitivity Specificity Total correctly classified Positive predictive value
≥1
≥2 100 0.00 7.41 7.41 100 0.24 5.48 5.26
≥3 100 1.33 8.64 7.50 100 1.93 7.08 5.35
≥4 100 12.7 19.1 8.39 100 13.7 18.3 6.04
≥5 91.7 35.3 39.5 10.2 95.5 37.8 40.6 7.53
≥6 83.3 61.3 63.0 14.7 78.3 72.1 72.4 13.4
>7 50.0 80.7 78.4 17.1 47.8 87.0 84.9 16.9
≥8 33.3 93.3 88.9 28.6 17.4 96.1 92.0 20.0
≥9 0.00 99.3 92.0 0.00 0.00 99.5 94.3 0.00
≥10 0.00 99.3 92.6 0.00 0.00 100 94.8
AUC 0.76(95% CI: 0.63, 0.90) 0.78 (95% CI: 0.70, 0.87)
1

T1Values are percentages.

2

Data for the 10-food group women dietary diversity score were from the short form list-based method.