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. 2022 Mar 29;22:605. doi: 10.1186/s12889-022-13062-7

Table 5.

Relative mediation effect of the variable ‘group exercise’

X ci aib bootstrap 95% CI |aib/ci| ci aib bootstrap 95% CI |aib/ci|
income (ref: very low income) Y=IADL Y = MMSE
low income −0.06 0.06 (0.01,0.12) −0.01 0.05 (0.01,0.1)
medium income −0.08 0.14 (0.08,0.19) 0.57** 0.12 (0.07,0.17) 20.44%
high income 0.37** 0.24 (0.17,0.3) 64.11% 1.16*** 0.20 (0.15,0.27) 17.53%
education (ref: illiteracy)
primary 0.98*** 0.17 (0.12,0.22) 17.07% 2.49*** 0.14 (0.09,0.18) 5.43%
junior 0.86*** 0.44 (0.34,0.54) 50.66% 2.5*** 0.35 (0.26,0.44) 14.08%
senior and above 1.10*** 0.62 (0.52,0.73) 56.30% 2.8*** 0.50 (0.4,0.61) 17.87%
occupation (ref: agriculture)
governmental & professional 1.83*** 0.31 (0.23,0.39) 16.92%
commercial & service 0.66** 0.19 (0.13,0.25) 28.74%

X independent variable, Y dependent variable, ref reference, ci the relative total effects of every category in categorical variables on the dependent variable, aib the quantity of relative mediation effect, |aib/ ci| the proportion of relative mediation effect, CI confidence interval

*p < .05, **p < .01, ***p < .001