Table 1.
s-TOFHLA results according to age, ethnicity, education and occupation
| N | Health literacy (N, %) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inadequate | Marginal | Adequate | ||
| Age (years) | ||||
| ≤ 45 | 21 | 0 (0) | 2 (9.5) | 19 (90.5) |
| 46 – 60 | 62 | 8 (12.9) | 6 (9.7) | 48 (77.4) |
| ≥ 61 | 67 | 15 (22.4) | 9 (13.4) | 43 (64.2) |
| Ethnicity | ||||
| Caucasian | 42 | 3 (7.1) | 2 (4.8) | 37 (88.1) |
| Afro-Brazilian | 55 | 13 (23.6) | 7 (12.7) | 35 (63.7) |
| Multi | 53 | 7 (13.2) | 8 (15.1) | 38 (71,7) |
| Education | ||||
| Less than 10 yrs | 74 | 21 (28.4) | 12 (16.2) | 41 (55.4) |
| 10 to 12 yrs | 61 | 2 (3.3) | 5 (8.2) | 54 (88.5) |
| College or higher | 15 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 15 (100) |
| Occupation | ||||
| 1 and 2 | 4 | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 4 (100) |
| 3 | 27 | 2 (7.4) | 1 (3.7) | 24 (88.9) |
| 4 | 31 | 3 (9.7) | 2 (6.5) | 26 (83.8) |
| 5 and 6 | 22 | 2 (9.1) | 5 (22.7) | 15 (68.2) |
| 7 | 66 | 16 (24.2) | 9 (13.7) | 41 (62.1) |