. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 5.

Published in final edited form as: J Health Commun. 2014;19(0 2):205–224. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2014.943377

Table 6.

Correlations between health literacy scores and covariates estimated from structural equation modeling

Covariate	Health Literacy Scale

	CHLT-30	REALM	S-TOFHLA
Education	.64	.52	.46
Income	.40	.28	.24
Gender (0=male; 1=female)	.02^*	.09	.09
Race=ethnicity (0=White; 1=Black)	−.60	−.43	−.35
Age	−.02^*	−.03^*	−.06^*

Note. All correlation coefficients are significant (p<.01), unless marked with an asterisk.

CHLT-30= 30-item Cancer Health Literacy Test; REALM=Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine; S-TOFHLA=short form of the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults.