Table 3 Cross tabs of categorizations of the sample based on health literacy cutoff scores

Functional HL

  Emerging

–

–

31 (91.2)

111 (40.7)

43 (79.6)

104 (40.2)

7 (100)

40 (90.9)

89 (50.9)

1 (1.4)

  Expanding

–

–

3 (8.8)

162 (59.3)

11 (20.4)

155 (59.8)

0 (0)

4 (9.1)

86 (49.1)

73 (98.6)

  Interactive HL

  Emerging

31 (21.8)

3 (1.8)

–

–

27 (52.9)

7 (2.7)

7 (100)

25 (56.8)

2 (1.1)

0 (0)

  Expanding

111 (78.2)

162 (98.2)

–

–

24 (47.1)

248 (97.3)

0 (0)

19 (43.2)

173 (98.9)

74 (100)

Critical HL

  Emerging

43 (29.3)

11 (6.6)

27 (79.4)

24 (8.8)

–

–

7 (100)

34 (77.3)

8 (4.6)

0 (0)

  Expanding

104 (70.7)

155 (93.4)

7 (20.6)

248 (91.2)

–

–

0 (0)

10 (22.7

167 (95.4)

74 (100)

AAHL Composite

  Emerging

7 (5.1)

0 (0.0)

7 (20.6)

0 (0)

7 (14.3)

0 (0)

–

–

–

–

  Expanding

40 (29.2)

4 (2.5)

25 (73.5)

19 (7.1)

34 (69.4)

10 (4)

–

–

–

–

  Lower Bridging

89 (65)

86 (52.8)

2 (5.9)

173 (65)

8 (16.3)

167 (66.5)

–

–

–

–

  Upper Bridging

1 (0.7)

73 (44.8)

0 (0.0)

74 (27.8)

0(0)

74 (29.5)

–

–

–

–