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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Dec 6.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Psychiatry. 2022 Apr 1;220(4):210–218. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2022.7

Table 3. Classification of suicidal ideation versus suicidal behaviour (child-reported and parent-reported): Results of binomial penalized logistic regression analysis.

Comparison Alpha AUROC SD AUROC Sensitivity Specificity Accuracy PPV NPV
Child-reported STB
Ideation versus suicidal behaviour
0.25 0.580 0.146 0.659 0.460 0.559 0.549 0.574
0.50 0.559 0.130 0.691 0.413 0.552 0.541 0.572
0.75 0.546 0.104 0.722 0.352 0.537 0.527 0.559
1.00 0.558 0.119 0.707 0.371 0.539 0.529 0.559
Parent-reported STB
Ideation versus suicidal behaviour
0.25 0.486 0.195 0.634 0.358 0.496 0.497 0.495
0.50 0.521 0.179 0.729 0.313 0.521 0.515 0.536
0.75 0.519 0.168 0.692 0.318 0.505 0.504 0.508
1.00 0.533 0.213 0.705 0.318 0.512 0.509 0.519

Note: PPV: positive predictive value, NPV: negative predictive value