英文摘要 |
This study had two aims: first, to use Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis to evaluate the ability of a Comprehensive Developmental Inventory for Infants and Toddlers (CDIIT) to discriminate developmentally delayed cases from normal cases; secondly, to determine the cut-off points which could assist assessors to identify cases with developmental delays. Total of 760 children aged from three to seventy-one months old, including 152 children with developmental delays and 608 normally developing children were involved. As the results showing from the area under the ROC curve (AUC), both CDIIT Screening Test (AUC=.92) and Diagnostic Test (AUC=.96) showed high accuracy for screening and diagnosis purposes. Judging from true positive fraction (TPF, also known as sensitivity), false positive fraction (FPF), positive likelihood ratio (LR+), negative likelihood ratio (LR-), hit rate, Youden Index, and Kappa, Z scores less than -1 and developmental quotients (DQ) less than 77.5 (-1.5SD) were identified as the best cut-off points for the CDIIT Screening and Diagnostic Test. That is, children whose total scores fall below the cut-off points can be considered as having “suspected developmental delay” in the Screening Test or “developmental delay” in the Diagnostic Test. |