Table 1.
Characteristics of the study population
| AHP unlabeled N = 128 |
AHP labeled N = 129 |
Table unlabeled N = 139 |
Table labeled N = 140 |
Overall n = 536 |
P value | |
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| Mean age (95% CI), years | 47.5 (44.4 to 50.6) | 49.7 (47.0 to 52.5) | 46.4 (43.9 to 49.0) | 58.9 (31.2 to 86.6) | 50.7 (43.5 to 57.9) | 0.11 |
| missing | 3 | 5 | 0 | 12 | ||
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| Gender | ||||||
| female | 74 (59%) | 80 (65%) | 86 (62%) | 83 (61%) | 323 (62%) | 0.82 |
| male | 52 (41%) | 44 (35%) | 53 (38%) | 53 (39 %) | 202 (38%) | |
| missing | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 11 | |
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| Education level | ||||||
| less than high school | 4 (3%) | 1 (1%) | 0 | 2 (1%) | 7 (1%) | 0.16 |
| high school | 22 (14%) | 20 (16%) | 31 (22%) | 16 (12%) | 89 (17%) | |
| some college* | 31 (25%) | 38 (31%) | 45 (32%) | 43 (32%) | 157 (30%) | |
| college | 40 (32%) | 44 (35%) | 42 (30%) | 52 (38%) | 178 (34%) | |
| post-graduate | 29 (23%) | 21 (17%) | 21 (15%) | 23 (17%) | 94 (18%) | |
| Missing | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 11 | |
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| Subjective health literacy† | ||||||
| extremely | 48 (38%) | 63 (49%) | 62 (45%) | 62 (44%) | 235 (44%) | 0.42 |
| quite a bit | 51 (40%) | 43 (33%) | 46 (33%) | 44 (31%) | 184 (34%) | |
| somewhat | 15 (12%) | 11 (9%) | 17 (12%) | 19 (16%) | 62 (12%) | |
| a little bit | 14 (11%) | 11 (9%) | 10 (7%) | 12 (9%) | 47 (9%) | |
| Not at all | 0 | 1 (1%) | 4 (3%) | 3 (2%) | 8 (1%) | |
| Subjective Numeracy Score, Mean (95% CI) | 4.69 (4.51 to 4.86) | 4.69 (4.5 to 4.9) | 4.70 (4.51 to 4.9) | 4.49 (4.31 to 4.67) | 4.64 (4.5 to 4.7) | 0.21 |
| missing | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
*
category includes associate’s degree
†
responses to the question “How confident are you filling out medical forms by yourself”