Table 2.
The Performance of Wet Mount and Formol-Ether Concentration Techniques to Diagnose Intestinal Parasite against the Gold Standard among Pregnant Women in DMCSH, Ethiopia
| Method | Result | Combined Result as “Gold Standard” | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pos | Neg | Sensitivity | NPV | TE | TA | ||
| % (95% CI) | % (95% CI) | % (95% CI) | Kappa Value | ||||
| WM | Pos | 104 | 0 | 37.1 (31.7–42.9) | 74.6 (71.2–77.7) | 77.9 (74.8–80.7) | 0.434 |
| Neg | 176 | 516 | |||||
| FEC | Pos | 205 | 0 | 73.5 (68.0–78.3) | 87.5 (84.6–89.9) | 90.7 (88.3–92.5) | 0.783 |
| Neg | 75 | 516 | |||||
Abbreviations: Pos, positive; Neg, negative.