Table 3.

Correlations among age, education, health literacy, processing capacity and knowledge measures

		2.	3.	4.	5.	6.	7.	8.	9.	10.	11.
1.	S-TOFHLA	.52**	.16*	−.18*	.37**	−.21*	.58**	.46*	−.24**	.15	.10
2.	REALM	–	.32**	.03	.37**	−.06	.33**	.43**	−.13	.15	.12
3.	Health knowledge		–	.04	.27**	.18*	.24**	.33**	−.11	.09	.08
4.	Age (years)			–	.03	.15	−.29**	.06	.17*	−.12	.05
5.	Education				–	−.08	.40**	.49**	−.20*	.25**	.08
6.	Years of Hypertension					–	−.24**	−.14	.37**	−.26**	−.15
7.	Processing capacity						–	.53**	−.41**	.27**	.21*
8.	General knowledge							–	−.23**	.10	.14
9.	Comorbidity index								–	−.46**	−.26**
10.	SF36-physical									–	.30**
11.	SF36-mental										–

Note:

^*p<.05;

^**p<.01.