From: Measuring the constructs of health literacy in the Iranian adult Kurdish population
Variable | Health literacy score | Simple linear regression (crude) | Adjusted | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
β | P-value | β | P-value | ||
Age | 9.78 | 0.11 | 0.001 | 0.016 | 0.098 |
Sex | |||||
 Male | 9.22 | – | – | – | – |
 Female | 10.30 | 1.08 | 0.000 | −1.10 | 0.001 |
Education | |||||
 Illiterate | 4.13 | – | – | – | – |
 Primary-junior high school | 9.29 | 7.16 | 0.000 | 7.42 | 0.000 |
 High school-diploma | 11.74 | 8.79 | 0.000 | 8.87 | 0.000 |
 Academic | 12.92 | 8.79 | 0.000 | 8.93 | 0.000 |
Employment | |||||
 Unemployed | 11.36 | – | – | – | – |
 Student | 12.21 | 0.84 | 0.193 | – | – |
 Homemaker | 8.62 | −2.74 | 0.000 | – | – |
 Retired | 11.22 | −0.139 | 0.847 | – | – |
 Self-employed | 9.37 | −1.99 | 0.000 | – | – |
 Part-time job | 10.39 | −0.974 | 0.061 | – | – |
 Employed | 14.40 | 3.04 | 0.000 | – | – |
Place of Residence | |||||
 Rural areas | 09.67 | – | – | – | – |
 Urban areas | 09.88 | 0.20 | 0.425 | – | – |