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

BMC Public Health

Table 5 Temporal associations between low health literacy (score < 4 on ‘Engagement’ scale) and health outcomes in injured participants, assessed over a 6-month period

	Low Health Literacy (based on ‘Engagement’ scale)
Health Outcomes (each unit-increase)^a	β (95% CI)	P value	Effect size
SF-12 PCS	−3.77 (−6.64, − 0.89)	0.01	0.36 SDs
SF-12 MCS	−3.80 (−6.52, −1.07)	0.01	0.38 SDs
EQ-5D-3L summary score	−0.078 (− 0.15, 0.007)	0.03	0.1 SDs
WHODAS score	9.44 (4.92, 13.95)	< 0.0001	0.53 SDs
Pain severity ratings	0.71 (0.04, 1.37)	0.04	0.29 SDs
DASS-21 total score	7.37 (3.92, 10.82)	< 0.0001	0.55 SDs
IESR total score	0.96 (0.34, 1.58)	0.003	0.34 SDs
Pain catastrophizing score	4.47 (1.25, 7.68)	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, MCS Mental Component Summary Score, 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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