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. 2014 May 23;72(1):15. doi: 10.1186/2049-3258-72-15

Table 3.

Factors associated with health literacy

  Proportional odds ratio Health literacy 95% confidence intervals
HealthStatus
1.003
(0.998 ; 1.009)
Male
0.786***
(0.654 ; 0.944)
Income[<1,100]
0.820*
(0.657 ; 1.023)
Income[1,100 – 2,200]
0.737***
(0.596 ; 0.912)
Smoking
0.936
(0.772 ; 1.134)
Workout
1.316***
(1.079 ; 1.605)
Alcohol
0.917
(0.727 ; 1.157)
Constant
3.505***
(1.799 ; 5.291)
Observations 1,526  

Results from an ordinal logistic regression. Health literacy study among university students, Greece, 2013.

Note: The specification is estimated via an Ordered Logit. Three stars (***) indicate statistical significance at 1% level and one star (*) at 10% level.