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Optimal cutoffs for ordinal mental health tests, while useful for population research, do not benefit individual patient care. Eliminating this "optimality bias" provides personalized test results for informed clinical decisions.

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  • Psychometrics
  • Clinical Decision Making
  • Mental Health Assessment

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  • Ordinal tests are crucial for identifying mental disorders in primary care, typically validated against binary standards.
  • Diagnostic accuracy is assessed using Sensitivity and Specificity at various cutoffs, with an 'optimal' cutoff maximizing population separation (e.g., Youden's statistic).
  • This 'optimal' cutoff, while statistically sound for research, lacks clinical utility for individual patient screening and case-finding, hindering personalized post-test decision-making.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the "optimality bias" in ordinal mental health tests.
  • To demonstrate how this bias impacts clinical practice and patient-centered care.
  • To propose a method for eliminating the optimality bias.

Main Methods:

  • Empirical investigation of the optimality bias magnitude.
  • Utilized DEPRESSD Individual Participant dataset-based meta-analyses.
  • Included Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale and Patient Health Questionnaire 9.

Main Results:

  • Developed an online Clinical Information Aid.
  • The aid provides instant access to all test metric outputs across all cutoffs.
  • Crucially, it offers metrics at the patient's precise score, addressing individual needs.

Conclusions:

  • The "optimality bias" in ordinal test interpretation can be empirically established.
  • This bias can be effectively eliminated through the use of comprehensive, individualized test metric outputs.
  • Clinical tools can be developed to provide personalized results, supporting informed patient decision-making.