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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 15.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2011 Sep;26(3):503–517. doi: 10.1037/a0022687

Table 1.

Baseline Participant Characteristics and Test Scores: Results from ACTIVE

ACTIVE Cohort
Memory
Group
(N=703)
Control
Group
(N=698)
Range p for
Difference
Age, mean (SD) 73.53 (6.02) 74.05 (6.05) 65, 94 0.11
Years of Education, mean (SD) 13.59 (2.73) 13.37 (2.70) 4, 20 0.14
Health status, n (%) 0.91
Excellent 57 (8.24%) 64 (9.29%)
Very Good 247 (35.69%) 232 (33.67%)
Good 283 (40.9%) 287 (41.65%)
Fair 98 (14.16%) 100 (14.51%)
Poor 7 (1.01%) 6 (0.87%)
Sex, n (% female) 537 (76%) 514 (74%) 0.23
Ethnicity, n (% white) 521 (74%) 500 (72%) 0.30
MMSE score, mean (SD) 27.29 (2.05) 27.27 (2.00) 23, 30 0.87
HVLT, mean (SD)
Sum of Trials 1–3 26.28 (5.57) 25.91 (5.57) 4, 36 0.22
Semantic clustering score (ICC = 0.53) 2.25 (1.78) 2.15 (1.70) −1.24, 7 0.31
Subjective clustering score (ICC = 0.31) 0.96 (1.22) 0.83 (1.18) −1.4, 8.66 0.06
Serial clustering score (ICC = 0.074) 0.62 (0.80) 0.61 (0.77) −0.86, 6.75 0.79
AVLT, mean (SD)
Sum of Trials 1–5 48.74 (10.72) 48.06 (10.84) 7, 73 0.24
Subjective clustering score (ICC = 0.42) 0.73 (0.93) 0.66 (0.91) −0.72, 6.99 0.19
Serial clustering score (ICC = 0.41) 1.60 (1.24) 1.52 (1.28) −0.62, 10.6 0.25
Composite functional ability, mean (SD) 100.24 (15.19) 99.31 (14.86) 43.42, 132.15 0.25
MDS-HC Raw Score 4.46 (5.08) 4.23 (4.62) 0, 26 0.38
OTDL Raw Score 17.70 (4.68) 17.38 (4.43) 1, 28 0.19
EPT Raw Score 18.84 (5.79) 18.25 (5.79) 0, 28 0.06
TIADL Raw Score 0.002 (0.61) 0.026 (0.63) −0.86, 5.03 0.46

Legend: ICC: Intraclass Correlation Coefficient; MDS-HC: Minimum Dataset - Home Care; OTDL: Observed Tasks of Daily Living; EPT: Everyday Problems Test; TIADL: Timed Instrumental Activities of Daily Living