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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Asthma. 2016 Jun 30;53(10):1041–1047. doi: 10.1080/02770903.2016.1175473

Table 3.

Multivariate analysis of self-reported health literacy and demographic and clinical characteristics1

Inadequate Health Literacy2 Not Confident Need Help Have Problems

OR (95% CI) p OR3 (95% CI)4 p OR (95% CI) p OR (95% CI) p
Demographics
Age 0.61 (0.44, 0.84) 0.002 0.54 (0.40, 0.74) 0.001 0.84 (0.65, 1.07) 0.155 0.81 (0.62, 1.06) 0.121
Female 0.73 (0.36, 1.48) 0.387 0.61 (0.32, 1.15) 0.125 0.69 (0.38, 1.28) 0.239 0.82 (0.43, 1.55) 0.536
Grade (≥ 10) 0.28 (0.13, 0.60) 0.001 0.25 (0.12, 0.52) 0.001 0.33 (0.16, 0.71) 0.004 0.41 (0.19, 0.85) 0.017
Mom education (< high school vs other) 2.37 (0.91, 6.18) 0.077 2.91 (1.21, 7.02) 0.017 1.44 (0.61, 3.42) 0.411 0.90 (0.35, 2.33) 0.835
Medicaid 0.36 (0.17, 0.76) 0.007 0.38 (0.20, 0.75) 0.005 0.50 (0.27, 0.91) 0.023 0.67 (0.36, 1.26) 0.217
BMI> 85th percentile 1.95 (0.95, 4.02) 0.069 2.27 (1.17, 4.41) 0.015 1.50 (0.81, 2.76) 0.196 1.00 (0.53, 1.91) 0.995
Clinical/Management
Physician diagnosis of asthma 1.64 (0.59, 4.59) 0.344 0.47 (0.21, 1.04) 0.063 1.87 (0.81, 4.33) 0.145 1.44 (0.60, 3.44) 0.415
Moderate-Severe asthma 1.35 (0.67, 2.71) 0.404 0.64 (0.34, 1.23) 0.181 1.11 (0.61–2.02 0.735 1.11 (0.59, 2.08) 0.746
Rescue medication 1.12 (0.53, 2.34) 0.774 0.49 (0.25, 0.94) 0.003 1.84 (0.98, 3.48) 0.06 1.44 (0.74, 2.82) 0.289
Controller medication 1.33 (0.64, 2.80) 0.447 0.54 (0.27, 1.09) 0.085 1.73 (0.92, 3.25) 0.091 1.31 (0.67, 2.55) 0.428
Number of ED visits 1.09 (0.99, 1.21) 0.086 1.01 (0.93, 1.10) 0.834 1.21 (1.02, 1.43) 0.029 1.20 (1.03, 1.40) 0.020
Number of Hospitalizations 1.29 (1.07, 1.56) 0.009 1.15 (1.00, 1.32) 0.055 1.19 (1.00, 1.42) 0.055 1.19 (1.01, 1.41) 0.036
Quality of Life
QOL Overall 0.75 (0.59, 0.95) 0.016 0.91 (0.74, 1.12) 0.383 0.86 (0.70, 1.05) 0.129 0.78 (0.63, 0.97) 0.025
Domain: Activities 0.70 (0.54, 0.92) 0.011 0.85 (0.68, 1.06) 0.154 0.87 (0.71, 1.08) 0.203 0.75 (0.60, 0.95) 0.016
Domain: Symptoms 0.77 (0.61, 0.96) 0.019 0.94 (0.77, 1.14) 0.535 0.86 (0.71, 1.04) 0.109 0.78 ( 0.64, 0.96) 0.016
Domain: Emotions 0.81 (0.61, 1.00) 0.044 0.94 (0.78, 1.13) 0.483 0.89 (0.75, 1.06) 0.197 0.86 (0.71, 1.03) 0.101
1

Sample size = 181 with exception of mom education<high school (n=158), BMI> 85th percentile (n=172), rescue medication (n=169), controller medication (n=169), and ≥ 1 ED visit (n=180);

2

Inadequate health literacy was recoded as ≤9 = 1 and ≥9 =0 for analysis;

3

Odds ratio;

4

95% Confidence Interval.