Table 3.
Health literacy levels among participants with varying educational category
| Educational Qualification |
Total no. of participants |
Oral health literacy levels | |||||
| Low | Medium | High | |||||
| NO | % | NO | % | No | % | ||
| Upto high school |
75 | 57 | 76 | 14 | 18.6 | 4 | 5.4 |
| 12th standard & equivalent |
134 | 68 | 50.7 | 42 | 13.3 | 24 | 17.8 |
| Graduation | 168 | 106 | 63 | 36 | 21.4 | 26 | 15.4 |
| Post-graduation | 73 | 28 | 38.3 | 29 | 39.7 | 16 | 21.9 |
| Total | 450 | 259 | 57.6 | 121 | 26.9 | 70 | 15.6 |