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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Disabil Health J. 2013 Nov 8;7(2):206–215. doi: 10.1016/j.dhjo.2013.10.007

Table 5.

Percentage in each type of IADL transition (from 1st to 2nd interview) by baseline characteristics

Characteristics at Baseline
(1st interview)
No
disability*
Stable Improving Worsening Death P-value
Entire Sample (n=5303) 20.1 56.9 11.0 10.2 1.8

Age at baseline (n=5303)
  20 – 29 (n= 357) 24.6 55.5 11.5 7.6 .8 <.001
  30 – 39 (n= 1196) 25.8 54.3 9.5 9.8 .6
  40 – 49 (n= 1691) 21.3 55.4 11.4 10.7 1.2
  50 – 59 (n= 1328) 12.4 61.0 12.7 11.2 2.7
  60 – 64 (n= 731) 19.7 58.0 9.4 9.2 3.7

Sex (n=5303)
  Male (n=3018) 22.3 53.2 11.4 11.2 2.0 <.001
  Female (n=2285) 17.2 61.8 10.5 8.9 1.4

Race/Ethnicity (n=5303)
  White (n=3901) 19.4 58.1 10.6 10.3 1.7 .03
  Non-white (n=1402) 22.2 53.7 12.2 10.1 1.9

Income (n=5303)
  More than 25K (n=839) 16.2 61.0 11.9 9.7 1.2 .009
  25K or less (n=4464) 20.8 56.1 10.8 10.3 1.9

Education Level (n=5224)
  Less than HS (n=1822) 19.6 56.1 11.6 10.9 1.8 .49
  HS or more (n=3402) 20.7 57.2 10.7 9.8 1.7

Marital Status (n=5300)
  Not married (n=3456) 22.0 55.8 10.4 10.0 1.7 <.001
  Married (n=1844) 16.4 58.9 12.3 10.6 1.8

Smoking status (n=5281)
  Doesn’t smoke (n=3258) 18.5 59.0 11.2 9.7 1.7 <.001
  Smokes (n=2023) 22.9 54.0 10.9 11.1 1.2

Body Mass Index (n=5133)
  Underweight (n=165) 11.5 62.4 9.7 12.7 3.6 <.001
  Normal (n=1476) 22.8 54.3 11.5 9.7 1.7
  Overweight (n=1614) 21.6 56.9 10.5 10.2 .9
  Obese (n=1878) 17.5 58.8 11.7 10.3 1.7

# of comorbidities (n=5290)
  0 (n=356) 28.9 54.2 6.7 9.3 .8 <001
  1 (n=1127) 30.3 50.6 8.7 9.9 .4
  2 (n=1183) 20.4 56.3 11.2 10.7 1.4
  3 (n=1004) 18.5 58.7 12.3 9.2 1.4
  4 – 12 (n=1620) 12.0 61.7 12.7 10.9 2.7

General Health (n=5274)
  Good-Excellent (n=2283) 28.3 52.7 7.9 10.5 .7 <.001
  Fair or poor (n=2991) 14.0 60.3 13.4 10.1 2.2

Living Situation (n=5303)
  With others (n=4056) 18.2 58.1 11.7 10.3 1.6 <.001
  Living alone (n=1247) 26.3 52.9 8.7 9.9 2.2

Setting (n=5303)
  Community (n=5274) 20.1 57.1 11.1 10.2 1.5
  Both (n=19) 21.1 26.3 5.3 10.5 36.8
  Facility (n=10) § 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 100.0
*

No disability reported on both years

P-value from Chi-square test

1 cells with expected value less than 5

§

Participants in Facilities for the entire year usually did not answer the question about IADL.