TABLE 6.

Psychometric properties of HADS-A and HADS-D at different cut-off scores (ROC analysis).

	Sensitivity (95% CI)	Specificity (95% CI)	+LR	−LR
HADS-A scores
≤6	65.92 (58.5–72.8)	54.44 (51.1–57.7)	1.45	0.63
≤7	58.66 (51.1–66.0)	65.39 (62.2–68.5)	1.69	0.63
≤8	48.04 (40.5–55.6)	73.38 (70.4–76.2)	1.81	0.71
≤9	43.02 (35.7–50.6)	80.94 (78.2–83.4)	2.26	0.70
≤10	35.75 (28.7–43.2)	87.19 (84.8–89.3)	2.79	0.74
≤11	27.37 (21.0–34.5)	90.25 (88.1–92.1)	2.81	0.80
≤12	20.11 (14.5–26.7)	93.32 (91.5–94.9)	3.01	0.86
HADS-D scores
≤6	61.45 (53.9–68.6)	71.37 (68.5–74.2)	2.15	0.54
≤7	49.72 (42.2–57.3)	79.58 (76.9–82.0)	2.43	0.63
≤8	43.58 (36.2–51.2)	85.39 (83.0–87.5)	2.98	0.66
≤9	35.20 (28.2–42.7)	89.19 (87.1–91.0)	3.26	0.73
≤10	27.93 (21.5–35.1)	92.49 (90.7–94.0)	3.72	0.78
≤11	21.23 (15.5–28.0)	96.30 (94.9–97.4)	5.73	0.82
≤12	12.85 (8.3–18.7)	98.70 (97.8–99.3)	9.87	0.88

+, LR likelihood ratio for a positive result; −, LR likelihood ratio for a negative result; CI, confidence interval.