Table 5.
Stratified Analysis by Study Intervention Group for the Association of Patient Health Literacy with Select Communication Behaviors and Visit Outcomes among Urban Primary Care Patients with Hypertension
| Measure | Intervention group | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minimal patient/ minimal physician | Intensive patient/ minimal physician | Minimal patient/ intensive physician | Intensive patient/ intensive physician | |
| Patient medical question asking - mean estimate (95 % CI) | ||||
| N | 50 | 45 | 67 | 68 |
| low HL | 5.21 (4.07–6.67) | 5.93 (3.43–10.24) | 4.93 (2.67–9.11) | 3.85 (2.84–5.22) |
| Adequate HL | 5.04 (3.80–6.67) | 5.14 (3.90–6.79) | 7.60 (6.16–9.38) | 6.42 (5.15–8.00) |
| p value | 0.88 | 0.61 | 0.18 | 0.002 |
| Physician number of statements - mean estimate (95 % CI) | ||||
| N | 50 | 45 | 67 | 68 |
| Low HL | 217 (174–271) | 212 (164–276) | 182 (141–235) | 182 (150–222) |
| Adequate HL | 230 (191–277) | 236 (168–332) | 208 (174–248) | 189 (157–227)* |
| p value | 0.29 | 0.53 | 0.20 | 0.69 |
| Patient reported participatory decision making - mean score (95 % CI) | ||||
| N | 55 | 54 | 75 | 78 |
| low HL | 65.1 (51.7–78.5) | 58.3 (45.0–71.6) | 68.5 (62.5–74.5) | 65.2 (57.5–73.0) |
| Adequate HL | 80.3 (75.1–85.5) | 73.6 (67.6–79.6) | 69.9 (64.0–75.9)* | 69.5 (61.9–77.2)* |
| p value | 0.04 | 0.048 | 0.76 | 0.43 |
Model is adjusted for patient race, gender and blood pressure control and physician gender
*P < 0.05 compared to the reference group of minimal patient/minimal physician intervention within literacy group