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Table 5 Association between health literacy and independent variables in the crude and adjusted models among Iranian adult Kurdish population, 2018

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

–

–