Prevalence and Cognitive Bases of Subjective Memory Complaints in Older Adults: Evidence from a Community Sample

Table 3

Logistic regression predicting other’s perceptions that subjects have a memory complaint (coded as 1) versus no complaint (coded as 0) as a function of sociodemographic, clinical, and cognitive variables (𝑛=443).

Variable	Odds ratio	95% CI	𝑃 value
Age	0.987	0.953–1.021	0.435
Education	0.957	0.884–1.036	0.281
Gender	0.844	0.539–1.321	0.459
Race	1.265	0.714–2.242	0.420
Hearing	1.424	0.933–2.175	0.101
Family history	0.862	0.516–1.440	0.570
Memory diagnosis	3.505	0.667–18.419	0.138
TICS-m	1.048	0.952–1.153	0.338
HVLT	0.962	0.926–1.000	0.047
Verbal fluency	1.021	0.974–1.070	0.395
Processing speed	1.017	0.995–1.040	0.131

For gender, 0 = female, 1 = male. For race, 0 = minority, 1 = caucasian. For hearing, 0 = no impairment, 1 = impairment. For family history, 0 = no family history, 1 = family history.
TICS-m = Modified Telephone Interview for Cognitive Status (memory items were deleted from the scale). HVLT = Hopkins Verbal Learning Test.