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

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);

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

Odds ratio;

⁴

95% Confidence Interval.