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Aniko Maraz
Aniko Maraz
Doctoral School of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Orsolya Király
Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Zsolt Demetrovics
Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
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Background and Aims
Survey-based studies often fail to take into account the predictive value of a test, in other words, the probability of a person having (or not having) the disease when scoring positive (or negative) on the given screening test.
Methods
We re-visited the theory and basic calculations of diagnostic accuracy.
Results
In general, the lower the prevalence the worse the predictive value is. When the disorder is relatively rare, a positive test finding is typically not useful in confirming its presence given the high proportion of false positive cases. For example, using the Compulsive Buying Scale (Faber & O’Guinn, 1992) three in four people classified as having compulsive buying disorder will in fact not have the disorder.
Conclusions
Screening tests are limited to serve as an early detection “gate” and only clinical (interview-based) studies are suitable to claim that a certain behaviour is truly “pathological”.
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