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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int Psychogeriatr. 2010 May 18;22(5):819–829. doi: 10.1017/S1041610209991402

Table 2.

Baseline Sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of study sample (N= 1136).

Variables Overall
N(%)
Have Apathy
N (%)
Not have Apathy
N   (%)
X2 (df) p-value

Sex 8.44 (1) .004
Male 436 (38.4) 353 (40.7) 83 (30.9)
Female 700 (61.6) 514 (59.3) 186 (69.1)
Race 0.95 (1) .004
White 880 (77.5) 672 (77.5) 208 (77.3)
Non-Whites 256 (22.5) 195 (22.5) 61 (22.7)
Education 0.71 (2) .699
<High School 491 (43.2) 374 (43.1) 117 (43.5)
High School 533 (46.9) 404 (46.6) 129 (48.0)
>High School 112 (9.9) 89 (10.3) 23 (8.6)
LADL disability 72.86 (1) <.001
No 1090 (96.0) 856 (98.7) 234 (87.0)
Yes 46 (4.0) 11 (1.3) 35 (13.0)
LADL disability 78.70(1) <.001
No 1012 (89.1) 812 (93.7) 200 (74.3)
Yes 124 (10.9) 55 (6.3) 69 (25.7)

Mean (SD) Mean (SD) Mean (SD) t-test (df) P-value

Age (year) 65.56 (8.79) 65.27 (8.80) 66.50 (8.69) −2.02 (1134) .044
MMSE score 28.04 (1.64) 28.13 (1.61) 27.73 (1.73) 3.54 (1134) <.001

X2 = Chi-Square statistic; df= degree of freedom; SD = Standard Deviation; p = level of significance