Table 4 Association between cognitive function and different socio-economic (SE) domains of the SES scale among the studied Egyptian elderly, 2020–2022 (n = 470)
Socio-economic domains | MoCA test | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Normal (n = 234) | MCI (n = 177) | Dementia (n = 59) | ||||||
No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | χ2 | p-value | |
Mother education | 42.326 | < 0.001* | ||||||
Illiterate | 103 | 38.9 | 123 | 46.4 | 39 | 14.7 | ||
Primary | 62 | 57.9 | 28 | 26.2 | 17 | 15.9 | ||
Preparatory | 33 | 61.1 | 18 | 33.3 | 3 | 5.6 | ||
Secondary | 32 | 80.0 | 8 | 20.0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
University | 4 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
Father education | 59.194 | < 0.001* | ||||||
Illiterate | 29 | 28.2 | 53 | 51.4 | 21 | 20.4 | ||
Literate certificate | 26 | 47.3 | 20 | 36.3 | 9 | 16.4 | ||
Primary | 49 | 62.0 | 26 | 32.9 | 4 | 5.1 | ||
Preparatory | 38 | 38.0 | 45 | 45.0 | 17 | 17.0 | ||
Secondary | 70 | 64.2 | 31 | 28.5 | 8 | 7.3 | ||
University | 21 | 91.3 | 2 | 8.7 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
Postgraduate | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
Mother work | 27.473 | < 0.001* | ||||||
No | 180 | 45.0 | 161 | 40.2 | 59 | 14.8 | ||
Yes | 54 | 77.1 | 16 | 22.9 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
Father work | 29.799 | < 0.001* | ||||||
No | 11 | 20.4 | 26 | 48.1 | 17 | 31.5 | ||
Yes | 223 | 53.6 | 151 | 36.3 | 42 | 10.1 | ||
Computer use | 115.985 | < 0.001* | ||||||
Never | 77 | 28.7 | 138 | 51.5 | 53 | 19.8 | ||
Sometimes | 144 | 76.2 | 39 | 20.6 | 6 | 3.2 | ||
Lot of time | 13 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
Per capita income | 55.363 | < 0.001* | ||||||
Loan not repaid | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | ||
Big loan | 5 | 35.7 | 6 | 42.9 | 3 | 21.4 | ||
Small loan | 28 | 27.7 | 59 | 58.4 | 14 | 13.9 | ||
Enough only | 94 | 45.9 | 81 | 39.5 | 30 | 14.6 | ||
Enough and saving | 107 | 71.8 | 30 | 20.1 | 12 | 8.1 | ||
Family size | 7.880 | 0.096 | ||||||
6 | 50 | 43.5 | 45 | 39.1 | 20 | 17.4 | ||
5 | 105 | 48.8 | 81 | 37.7 | 29 | 13.5 | ||
< 5 | 79 | 56.4 | 51 | 36.5 | 10 | 7.1 | ||
Crowding indexa | 3.369 | 0.185 | ||||||
2–4 | 134 | 46.9 | 111 | 38.8 | 41 | 14.3 | ||
< 2 | 100 | 54.3 | 66 | 35.9 | 18 | 9.8 | ||
Sewage disposal | 12.857 | 0.002* | ||||||
No | 3 | 13.6 | 13 | 59.1 | 6 | 27.3 | ||
Yes | 231 | 51.6 | 164 | 36.6 | 53 | 11.8 | ||
Refuse disposal | 42.489 | < 0.001* | ||||||
No | 45 | 28.7 | 86 | 54.8 | 26 | 16.5 | ||
Yes | 189 | 60.4 | 91 | 29.1 | 33 | 10.5 | ||
SES level | 61.338 | < 0.001* | ||||||
High | 63 | 73.3 | 19 | 22.1 | 4 | 4.6 | ||
Medium | 160 | 52.3 | 111 | 36.3 | 35 | 11.4 | ||
Low | 11 | 14.1 | 47 | 60.3 | 20 | 25.6 | ||