Norms for Zung’s Self-rating Anxiety Scale

BMC Psychiatry

Table 9 Expected numbers of false positives and false negatives per 100 cases using the original and current SAS cut-offs

Cut-off	False Negatives	False Positives	Total Misdiagnoses
Original: 40	3^a	9	12
Current: 36	1	22	23

^aNote if the 62.5% sensitivity recorded in the positive community sample were applied here this figure would increase to 4–5 cases

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