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. 2022 Jul 27;19(15):9181. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19159181

Table 2.

The optimal cut-off scores for SOT, BBS, and FES-I using the Youden method.

Cut-Off Score SOT
≤60
BBS
≤35
BBS
≤42
FES-I
≥27
FES-I
≥29
Value Value Value Value Value
95% CI 95% CI 95% CI 95% CI 95% CI
Prevalence (%) 32/84
38.1
32/84
38.1
32/84
38.1
32/84
38.1
32/84
38.1
(27.7–49.3) (27.7–49.3) (27.7–49.3) (27.7–49.3) (27.7–49.3)
Sensitivity (%) 23/32
71.9
14/32
43.8
18/32
56.3
26/32
81.3
23/32
71.9
(53.3–86.3) (26.4–62.3) (37.7–73.6) (63.6–92.8) (53.3–86.3)
Specificity (%) 34/52
65.4
48/52
88.5
35/52
67.3
29/52
55.8
33/52
63.5
(50.9–78.0) (76.6–95.6) (52.9–79.7) (41.3–69.5) (49.0–76.4)
PPV (%) 56.1 70.0 51.4 53.1 54.8
(39.7–71.5) (45.7–88.1) (34.0–68.6) (38.3–67.5) (38.7–70.2)
NPV (%) 79.1 71.9 71.4 82.9 78.6
(64.0–90.0) (59.2–82.4) (56.7–83.4) (66.4–93.4) (63.2–89.7)
LR (+) 2.1 3.8 1.7 1.8 2.0
(1.34–3.2) (1.6–8.9) (1.1–2.8) (1.3–2.6) (1.3–3.0)
LR (−) 0.43 0.64 0.65 0.34 0.44
(0.24–0.77) (0.46–0.88) (0.42–1.01) (0.16–0.72) (0.25–0.8)
AUC 0.686 0.661 0.618 0.685 0.677
(0.58–0.79) (0.56–0.76) (0.51–0.73) (0.59–0.78) (0.57–0.58)

Legend: SOT, Sensory Organization Test; BBS, Berg Balance Scale; FES-I, Falls Efficacy Scale–International; CI, confidence interval; PPV, positive predictive value; NPV, negative predictive value; LR, likelihood ratio; AUC, area under receiver operating characteristic curve.