Health literacy and recovery following a non-catastrophic road traffic injury

BMC Public Health

Table 4 Temporal associations between low health literacy (score < 4 on ‘Understanding’ scale) and health outcomes in injured participants, assessed over a 6-month period

	Low Health Literacy (based on ‘Understanding’ scale)
Health Outcomes (each unit-increase)^a	β (95% CI)	P value	Effect size
SF-12 PCS	−5.15 (−7.99, −2.32)	0.0004	0.5 SDs
EQ-5D-3L summary score	−0.10 (−0.17, 0.03)	0.004	0.13 SDs
WHODAS score	9.04 (4.53, 13.55)	< 0.0001	0.51 SDs
Pain severity ratings	0.68 (0.02, 1.34)	0.04	0.28 SDs
DASS-21 total score	4.17 (0.67, 7.66)	0.02	0.31 SDs
IESR total score	0.95 (0.32, 1.56)	0.003	0.34 SDs
Pain catastrophizing score	4.46 (1.27, 7.66)	0.01	0.36 SDs

DASS-21 Depression Anxiety Stress Scale-21, EQ-5D-3L European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions, IES-R Impact of Events Scale Revised, PCS Physical Component Summary Score, WHODAS WHO Disability Assessment Schedule
^aAdjusted for age, sex, education, social satisfaction, remoteness, pre-injury factors (anxiety/depression, disability, comorbidities and employment), type of road user, injury severity scores, hospital admission, pain severity, perceived danger, psychological factors (DASS-21, IESR, catastrophizing) and third-party insurance claim status

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