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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychiatry Res. 2022 Mar 28;312:114534. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2022.114534

Table 4.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) Detection Classification Accuracy Metrics for Each Measure

Measure Accuracy Balanced Accuracy Sensitivity Specificity PPV NPV Kappa
PSWQ 88.3% 81.2% 69.0% 93.4% 73.6% 91.9% 0.625
MASQ-AA 77.5% 56.4% 20.1% 92.7% 42.0% 81.4% 0.150
MASQ-AD 83.6% 74.2% 58.1% 90.4% 61.6% 89.0% 0.474
MASQ-AD14 77.9% 64.3% 41.0% 87.7% 47.0% 84.8% 0.283
MASQ-AD8 81.9% 65.5% 37.1% 93.8% 61.4% 84.9% 0.340

Note. Accuracy, balanced accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV), negative predictive value (NPV), and Cohen’s Kappa for the Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ), Mood and Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire (MASQ) Anxious Arousal Scale (MASQ-AA), MASQ Anhedonic Depression Scale (MASQ-AD), MASQ-AD 14-item subscale (MASQ-AD14), and MASQ-AD 8-item subscale (MASQ-AD8) for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) detection.