Table 5.

Provider Ratings of Parent Health Literacy and Parent Demographics

	n	Inadequate or marginal %	Adequate %	Bivariate p-value	Multivariate p-value
Race
Black	241	38.6%	61.4%	0.009	0.011
White	36	16.7%	83.3%
Education
<High school	47	57.4%	42.6%	<0.0001	0.257
High school/GED	104	39.4%	61.6%
Some post HS	82	28.0%	72.0%
College or more	44	18.2%	81.8%
Income
<$20,000	139	43.2%	56.8%	0.005	0.223
$20,000 or more	93	24.7%	75.3%
Race concordance
Same	99	38.4%	61.6%	0.515	−
Different	178	34.3%	65.7%