Table 4.

Correlation analysis of social support and health literacy in rural diabetes patients.

Item	Health literacy	Communication	Functional	Critical
Social support	0.482**	0.437**	0.409**	0.398**
Subjective support	0.378**	0.354**	0.316**	0.312**
Objective support	0.378**	0.339**	0.321**	0.323**
Utilization of support	0.208**	0.183**	0.179**	0.180**

^**p < 0.01.