Skip to main content
. 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 5.

Estimated Odds Ratios and 95% Confidence Intervals for the Effect of Apathy on Impairment in Basic Activities of Daily Living (N=1136), ECA.

I. Logistic Regression II. General Estimating Equations §

Variables Model 1
OR (95% CI)
Model 2
OR (95% CI)
Model 3
OR (95% CI)
Model 1
OR (95% CI)
Model 2
OR (95% CI)
Model 3
OR (95% CI)
Model 4
OR (95% CI)
Apathy 2.88(1.48–5.60)* 2.76(1.39–5.47)* 2.74(1.35–5.57)* 3.16(1.89–5.29)* 2.91(1.73–4.89)* 3.03(1.77–5.17)* 2.37(1.57–3.57)*
Age (years) --- 1.07(1.03–1.11)* 1.06(1.02–1.10)* --- 1.08(1.03–1.12)* 1.06(1.01–1.11)* 1.06(1.01–1.11)*
Female --- 0.86(0.41–1.67) 0.91(0.43–1.91) --- 0.83(0.41–1.71) 0.88(0.41–1.89) 1.35(0.71–2.57)
Non-Whites --- 2.06(1.01–4.22)* 1.82(0.86–3.85) --- 1.91(0.94–3.91) 1.70(0.82–3.52) 1.03(0.51–2.08)
<High School --- --- 2.06(0.47–9.11) --- --- 2.10(0.47–9.43) 2.08(0.68–6.39)
High School --- --- 1.35(0.29–6.26) --- --- 1.50(0.32–7.05) 1.73(0.58–5.20)
Depression --- --- 0.74(0.92–5.88) --- --- 0.35(0.01–2.73) 1.56(0.94–2.59)
*

p-value < 0.05

OR: Odds Ratio; CI: Confidence Interval

Used 13 year follow-up data

§

used repeated measures for apathy, IADL, ADL, and depression (except for Model 3, where depression was only measured at Wave 2.