Health literacy, health status, and healthcare utilization of Taiwanese adults: results from a national survey

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Table 2 Health Status, Health Care Utilization, and Health Literacy in a National Sample of Adults in Taiwan, 2008

	N	%	Inadequate HL		Marginal HL		Adequate HL		X²-test p-value
			N	%	N	%	N	%
Self-Reported Physical Health									<0.001^a
Very poor	25	1.7	7	3.4	6	2.4	12	1.2
Poor	175	11.7	42	20.5	28	11.3	105	11.1
Average	756	50.6	99	48.3	125	50.6	532	51.1
Good	343	23.0	39	19.0	54	21.9	250	24.0
Excellent	194	13.0	18	8.8	34	13.8	142	13.6
Self-Reported Mental Health									<0.01^a
Very poor	15	1.0	4	2.0	3	1.2	8	0.8
Poor	176	11.8	40	19.5	26	10.5	110	10.6
Average	593	39.7	78	38.0	100	40.5	415	39.9
Good	452	30.3	63	30.7	75	30.4	314	30.2
Excellent	257	17.2	20	9.8	43	17.4	194	18.6
Outpatient Clinic Visit									<0.01
Yes	957	64.1	152	74.2	157	63.6	648	62.2
No	536	35.9	53	25.8	90	36.4	393	37.8
Emergency Room Visit									0.277
Yes	198	13.3	34	16.6	34	13.8	130	12.5
No	1295	86.7	171	83.4	213	86.2	911	87.5
Hospitalization									<0.01
Yes	103	6.9	25	12.2	13	5.3	65	6.2
No	1390	93.1	180	87.8	234	94.7	976	93.8

^a Yates' correction was used to adjust for small observations in some of the cells.

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