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Table 2 Estimated Kappa agreement between the Lund University Checklist of Incipient Exhaustion (LUCIE) and the Karolinska Exhaustion Disorder Scale (KEDS) at different LUCIE cutoff points and by excluding identifications in the middle range of LUCIE (sensitivity analysis)

From: The concurrent validity of the Lund University Checklist for Incipient Exhaustion and the Karolinska Exhaustion Disorder Scale: a replication study

2LUCIE

 

KEDS

 

Kappa (95% 1CI)

[3Reference data]

Normal

Exhaustion

Total

N

%

N

%

N

%

Gliding cut-off point

        

Step 1 GG Vs. Step 2-YG, 3-RG, 4-RR

No

1242

66.0

70

8.9

1312

49.1

0.47 (0.44–0.50)

Yes

640

34.0

718

91.1

1358

50.9

[0.36 (0.32–0.42)]

 

Total

1882

100.0

788

100.0

2670

100.0

[N = 1339]

Step 1-GG, 2-YG Vs. Step 3-RG, 4-RR

No

1693

90.0

298

37.8

1991

74.6

0.54 (0.51–0.58)

Yes

189

10.0

490

62.2

679

25.4

[0.48 (0.41–0.55)]

 

Total

1882

100.0

788

100.0

2670

100.0

[N = 1339]

Step 1-GG, 2-YG, 3-RG Vs. Step 4-RR

No

1840

97.8

552

70.1

2392

89.6

0.34 (0.30–0.38)

Yes

42

2.2

236

29.9

278

10.4

[0.28 (0.20–0.36)]

 

Total

1882

100.0

788

100.0

2670

100.0

[N = 1339]

Excluding steps

        

Step 1-GG Vs. Step 3-RG, 4-RR

No

1242

86.8

70

12.5

1312

65.9

0.70 (0.66–0.73)

Yes

189

13.2

490

87.5

679

34.1

[0.60 (0.52–0.66)]

 

Total

1431

100.0

560

100.0

1991

100.0

[N = 1062]

LUCIE Step 1-GG Vs. Step 4-RR

No

1242

96.7

70

22.9

1312

82.5

0.77(0.72–0.81)

Yes

42

3.3

236

77.1

278

17.5

[0.60 (0.49–0.70)]

 

Total

1284

100.0

306

100.0

1590

100.0

[N = 945]

  1. Note: 1 CI = Confidence Interval (calculated with bootstrap estimation)
  2. 2The rare combination of SWS yellow + UWS red was included in LUCIE Step 4-RR  (n = 14)
  3. 3Data derived from Table 4 in Persson et al. (2016) that used a highly educated healthy population sample drawn from the general population. Data was originally published in BMC Public Health [Persson et al., 2016]