Table 1.

Patient sociodemographic characteristics.

Characteristic	Total (N = 263)
Median age (y) (range)	51 (20–80)
No. (%) of female respondents	194 (73.8)
No. (%) of respondents with education level
Less than high school	84 (31.9)
High school or GED	104 (39.5)
Some college and above	75 (28.5)
No. (%) of respondents with insurance status
Private or Medicare	74 (28.1)
Medicaid or county financial assistance program *	173 (60.8)
Self-pay	16 (6.1)
No. (%) of patients attending Healthcare system
Private	41 (15.6)
Public	222 (84.4)
No. (%) of patients attending clinic type
Continuity clinic	102 (38.8)
Emergency Department	41 (15.6)
Walk in Clinic	120 (45.6)
No. of respondents with income/total no. of respondents (%)
<$20,000	127 (48.3)
≥$20,000 but <$40,000	58 (22.1)
≥$40,000 but <$60,000	11 (4.2)
≥$60,000 but <$100,000	8 (3.0)
≥$100,000	6 (2.3)
Don’t know/prefer not to say	53 (20.2)
No. (%) of questionnaires completed in Spanish	155 (58.9)
No. (%) of respondents born in the United States/Other
United States	81 (30.8)
Other †	182 (69.2)
Median years lived in the United States for the respondents  born in other countries (y) (range) (n = 182)	23 (0–58)
No. (%) of respondents reporting non-prescription antibiotic use
Reported prior non-prescription use	123 (46.8)
No. (%) Health Literacy §
Adequate Health Literacy	198 (75.3)
Inadequate Health Literacy	65 (24.7)

* County financial assistance program includes those who have benefits from the county allowing access to public clinic providers at either very low cost or no cost. ^† Includes 1 Columbia, 1 Costa Rica, 6 Cuba, 1 Dominican Republic, 14 El Salvador, 6 Guatemala, 15 Honduras, 131 Mexico, 2 Nicaragua, 1 Panama, 1 Peru, and 3 Venezuela (countries are listed in alphabetical order). ^§ Calculated using the three questions from the Brief Health literacy Screen measure [18,19].