Abstract: ObjectiveTo investigate the prevalence and risk factors of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) among the old people in Chongqing, China. MethodsFrom October to November, 2015, 1850 persons more than 60-year-old in Chongqing were cluster sampled. They were investigated with self-made general situation questionnaire, Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE), Instrumental Activity of Daily Living Scale (IADL) and Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) through face-to-face interview. Enumeration data were tested with χ² test and multiple Logistic regression. ResultsMCI prevalence was 11.73% in the old people in Chongqing, and various with the residential regions, ages, marital status, literacy, career, smoking, drinking, seafood-eating, egg-eating, exercising, intensive labor, low intensity of labor, housework, outdoor activities, Mahjong/chess/cards playing, TV-watching/radio-listening/newspaper-reading, social activities, obesity, hypertension, diabetes, stroke, hyperglycemia, cerebrovascular insufficiency and depression (χ²>4.092, P<0.05). According to multiple Logistic regression, living in rural areas, aging, celibacy, obesity, hypertension and depression were the risk factors of MCI; while middle school and above years of schooling, mental workers, smoking cessation, frequent seafood-eating and egg-eating, exercising, daily intensive labor and low intensity of labor, daily and sometimes housework, daily and weekly outdoor activities at least once, daily Mahjong/chess/cards playing and daily TV-watching/radio-listening/newspaper-reading were the preventing factors. ConclusionThe morbidity of MCI is high in the old people in Chongqing. It is necessary to take effective intervention in view of the related factors of MCI as early as possible, to delay or prevent the development of MCI to dementia.

Key words: mild cognitive impairment, aged, prevalence, related factors, Chongqing