Table 3.

Relationship between caregiver characteristics and PHLAT-10 Spanish (10 item) and PHLAT-8 Spanish (8 item).

	PHLAT-10 Spanish		PHLAT-8 Spanish
	Mean (SD) or Correlation (r)	P value	Mean (SD) or Correlation (r)	P value
Caregiver age, years	−0.07	0.4	−0.08	0.3
Age of youngest child (mo)	0.02	0.7	0.02	0.8
Race / ethnicity		0.7		0.6
Hispanic (n=174)	42 (21)		47 (25)
Other (n=2)	35 (50)		38 (53)
Annual family income1		0.8		0.9
<19,999	47 (21)		52 (26)
$20,000–39,999	50 (21)		55 (26)
≥40,000	52 (23)		56 (23)
Participation in WIC Program		0.3		0.5
Yes	41 (21)		46 (25)
No	46 (20)		50 (25)
Education		<0.001		<0.001
Less than high school	35 (20)		39 (24)
High school or GED	47 (21)		53 (24)
Some college or above	60 (14)		68 (15)
Education, years	0.49	<0.001	0.48	<0.001
Literacy (S-TOFHLA)		<0.001		<0.001
Inadequate / Marginal	26 (14)		27 (16)
Adequate	46 (21)		52 (24)
Raw S-TOFHLA score	0.53	<0.001	0.55	<0.001
Numeracy skills (WRAT-3)		<0.001		<0.001
Fifth grade or less	36 (19)		40 (23)
Sixth to eighth grade	58 (19)		66 (21)
Ninth grade or above	602		752
Standard WRAT score	0.55	<0.001	0.54	<0.001
Confidence filling out forms on own3	0.18	0.02	0.22	0.004
How often have someone help read medical information4	0.22	0.004	0.23	0.002
PHLAT-10 Spanish score	---	---	0.97	<0.001

¹Missing for 75 caregivers who refused / did not know annual income

²Only one person categorized as having HS or above numeracy; no SD calculated

³Answer choices reverse ordered for analysis in the following manner: “not at all,” “a little bit,” “somewhat,” “quite a bit,” “extremely”

⁴Answer choices reverse ordered for analysis in the following manner: “always,” “often,” “sometimes,” “occasionally,” “never”