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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Health Commun. 2015 Oct;20(0 2):24–33. doi: 10.1080/10810730.2015.1066465

Table 2.

Effect Sizes for association of Health Literacy with Smoking Status and Health Indicators.

Age Sex Education Income Insurance Status Relationship Status Health Literacy
Panel A Smoking Status Odds Ratio 1.01 0.38 0.39 0.50 0.64 1.07 1.68
CI 0.99–1.02 0.25–0.58 0.25–0.61 0.33–0.78 0.41–1.00 0.69–1.65 1.09–2.58
P-value 0.2903 <0.0001 <0.0001 0.0018 0.0503 0.7747 0.019

Panel B General Health Odds Ratio 1.00 1.42 0.63 0.52 0.90 1.19 1.42
CI 0.99–1.01 0.99–2.05 0.47–0.86 0.38–0.71 0.63–1.29 0.86–1.64 1.01–2.01
P-value 0.9960 0.0572 0.0031 <0.0001 0.575 0.2998 0.047

Panel C General Health Estimate −0.1445 −0.5816 2.28523 1.32733 −0.73904 −0.15575 −2.454
SD 0.0194 0.55998 0.49412 0.55101 0.6386 0.52084 0.6247
P-value <0.0001 0.2992 <0.0001 0.0161 0.2474 0.765 <0.0001

Panel D Mental Health Estimate 0.1231 −2.2828 0.0662 1.51856 0.84259 −0.32586 −0.3967
SD 0.0224 0.64831 0.57205 0.63792 0.73933 0.60299 0.7232
P-value <0.0001 0.0004 0.9079 0.0174 0.2546 0.589 0.5834

Panel E Perceived Stress Estimate −0.0384 0.51756 −0.53323 −0.8274 −0.24154 −0.26288 0.6798
SD 0.0065 0.18754 0.16557 0.18493 0.21429 0.17474 0.2093
P-value <0.0001 0.0059 0.0013 <0.0001 0.2599 0.1327 0.0012

Panel F Depressive Symptoms Estimate −0.0344 0.71635 −1.22116 −1.28 −0.02505 0.27798 0.5029
SD 0.0108 0.31208 0.27581 0.30748 0.35667 0.29071 0.3484
P-value 0.0015 0.0219 <0.0001 <0.0001 0.944 0.3391 0.1492