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Table 5 Validity coefficients (%) of suicide ideation in the psychiatric, community and general medical groups

From: The five-item Brief-Symptom Rating Scale as a suicide ideation screening instrument for psychiatric inpatients and community residents

 

BSRS-5

PPV

NPV

Sensitivity

Specificity

Psychiatric group

4/5

78.01%

79.05%

83.76%

72.17%

Community group

7/8

68.75%

96.09%

21.57%

99.49%

General Medical group

12/13

92.86%

88.48%

10.57%

99.88%

  1. PPV = positive predictive value; NPV = negative predictive value