Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association

Table 6 Relationship between impairment in cognitive sub-domain by ASCA scale and SES level of CI studied Egyptian elderly, 2020–2022 (n = 236)

From: Pattern of cognitive impairment among community-dwelling elderly in Egypt and its relation to socioeconomic status

Impairment	SES level						p-value
	High (n = 23)		Medium (n = 146)		Low (n = 67)
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Learning & verbal memory
Verbal learning	4	17.4	26	17.8	19	28.4	0.194
Verbal recall	3	13.1	35	23.9	25	37.3	0.037^*
Working memory
Working encoding	18	78.3	113	77.4	58	86.6	0.290
Working spatial	20	86.9	136	93.2	66	98.5	0.097
Working cuing	8	34.8	41	28.1	23	34.3	0.587
Executive functions
Executive function	19	82.6	92	63.0	50	74.6	0.071
Processing speed	1	4.3	18	12.3	18	26.9	0.007^*
Attention	16	69.6	111	76.1	50	74.6	0.799
Language & semantic memory	16	69.6	128	87.7	64	95.5	0.004^*
Visuospatial	14	60.9	94	64.4	61	91.1	< 0.001^*
Abstraction	4	17.4	16	10.9	10	14.9	0.562
Judgment	3	13.1	36	24.7	21	31.3	0.208

ASCA, Ain Shams Cognitive Assessmen scale, SES, socioeconomic status
^*Significant

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