Table 3. Separate Linear Regressions Predicting Three Potential OHLA-S Scoring Systems.
| OHLA-S pronunciation and comprehension | OHLA-S comprehension extra credit | OHLA-S pronunciation only | ||||||||||
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| β | SE | t value | P value | β | SE | t value | P value | β | SE | t value | P value | |
| Gender* | 0.38 | 0.54 | 0.70 | 0.49 | 1.66 | 1.02 | 1.63 | 0.11 | 0.93 | 0.54 | 1.70 | 0.09 |
| Age | 0.03 | 0.03 | 0.81 | 0.42 | 0.00 | 0.06 | -0.02 | 0.99 | -0.03 | 0.03 | -0.96 | 0.34 |
| Education† | 0.40 | 0.07 | 5.46 | <0.01 | 0.80 | 0.14 | 5.81 | <0.01 | 0.33 | 0.07 | 4.47 | <0.01 |
| Medical materials‡ | 0.22 | 0.10 | 2.21 | 0.03 | 0.32 | 0.19 | 1.71 | 0.09 | 0.12 | 0.10 | 1.20 | 0.23 |
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Gender: Males = 0, Females = 1.
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Education: Years of schooling.
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Medical materials: three items measuring patients' difficulties in understanding written medical and dental materials.
OHLA-S, Oral Health Literacy Assessment in Spanish; SE, standard error.