Table 4.

Bivariate correlations

	2	3	4	5	6
1. Self-perceived frequency of self-care behaviours, composite score	0.01	0.06	0.11	0.39***	0.30***
2. Health literacy, S-TOFHLA		0.32***	0.05	0.02	0.08
3. Health literacy, screening scale			0.16*	0.31***	0.21**
4. Diabetes knowledge				0.31***	0.18*
5. Health empowerment: impact					0.53***
6. Health empowerment: self-determination

Coefficients are Pearson's r. #p<0.10, *p<0.05, **p<0.01, ***p<0.001; 1-tailed tests.

S-TOFHLA, the Short Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults.