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. 2022 Nov 7;22:838. doi: 10.1186/s12877-022-03529-y

Table 2.

Association between intergenerational relationships and cognitive impairment with cut-off value 24 for MMSE scores

Model 1 Model 2 Model 3
Crude HR (95% CI) P value HR (95% CI) P value HR (95% CI) P value
Main financial support  < 0.001  < 0.001 < 0.001
 No 1 Reference 1 Reference 1 Reference
 Yes 3.00 (2.77, 3.24) 2.55 (2.35, 2.77) 2.50 (2.31, 2.72)
Living or being visited 0.278 0.807 0.793
 No 1 Reference 1 Reference 1 Reference
 Yes 1.06 (0.96, 1.17) 1.01 (0.91, 1.13) 1.01 (0.91, 1.13)
Housework or childcare 0.001  < 0.001 < 0.001
 No 1 Reference 1 Reference 1 Reference
 Yes 0.90 (0.84, 0.96) 0.86 (0.81, 0.92) 0.89 (0.83, 0.95)

Abbreviations: HR Hazard ratio, CI Confidence interval

Model 2 were adjusted for age, gender, residence, marital status and education

Model 3 were further adjusted for smoking, drinking status, exercise, ADL disability, BMI, comorbidity and baseline Chinese MMSE scores