Table 5. Odds of Current Driving in Women with Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) or Probable Dementia Adjusted for Age, Race, Education, and Depressive Symptomatology Using Multiple Logistic Regression with Backward Elimination.

	MCI, n = 178		Probable Dementia, n = 207
Model	aOR (95% CI)	P-Value	aOR (95% CI)	P-Value
1: Dementia Questionnaire items
Remembering names	–	–	0.49 (0.22–1.08)	.08
Finding way on familiar streets	0.42 (0.11–1.55)	.19	0.50 (0.23–1.12)	.09
Household tasks	0.32 (0.12–0.85)	.02	–	–
Handling money	–	–	0.34 (0.13–0.86)	.02
Grasping situations	0.30 (0.12–0.80)	.02	–	–
Dressing or caring for self	0.06 (0.01–0.67)	.02	–	–
Bathing	0.44 (0.13–1.50)	.19	0.44 (0.16–1.18)	.10
Medications for memory problems	0.12 (0.03–0.53)	.004	0.32 (0.14–0.74)	.008
2: Cognitive tests
Modified Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status	–	–	1.14 (1.03–1.26)	.01
East Boston Memory Test
Immediate recall	0.88 (0.74–1.04)	.14	–	–
Long delay	–	–	1.07 (0.97–1.17)	.19
Trail-Making Test Part A, secondsa	–	–	1.08 (0.98–1.19)	.11
Animal fluency	–	–	1.07 (0.98–1.17)	.12
Digit Span forward	–	–	0.84 (0.73–0.97)	.02

aOR = adjusted odds ratio; CI = confidence interval.

All variables with P < .25 from Table 4 were entered as covariates into an initial model, then covariates with the highest P-values were eliminated sequentially until all of the remaining covariates had P < .20; age, race, education, and depression score were forced to remain in all models.

^aScores were subtracted from 0 so that higher score indicate better performance.