Research Article

Brief Psychiatric Screening Questionnaire in Parkinson’s Disease

Table 3

Performance of BPQ groups assessed by area under the curve (AUC) and sensitivity, specificity, and efficiency coefficient of optimal cutoff scores.

TargetsAUCOptimal cutoff scoresSensitivity (%)Specificity (%)Efficiency coefficient

GDS ≥ 50.896 (<0.0001)BPQ-Depression > 675900.88
Highest decile of STAI-Y20.979 (<0.0001)BPQ-Anxiety > 17100930.91
Highest decile of apathy scale0.736 (0.015)BPQ-Apathy > 770650.51