Table 2.

Health literacy and patient empowerment (N=433).

Health literacy and patient empowerment		Participants, n (%)a
Satisfaction with the quality of health care received in the last 5 years
	Satisfied	366 (84.5)
	Neutral	39 (9.0)
	Dissatisfied	28 (6.5)
Finding relevant health information
	Difficult	106 (26.2)
	Not easy or not difficult	149 (36.9)
	Easy	149 (36.9)
Assessing the reliability of Web-based health care information
	Difficult	195 (48.3)
	Not easy or not difficult	116 (28.7)
	Easy	93 (23.0)
Importance of shared decision making
	Important	377 (93.3)
	Neutral	18 (4.5)
	Not important	9 (2.2)
Importance of being able to questions physicians’ decisions
	Important	363 (89.9)
	Neutral	37 (9.1)
	Not important	4 (1.0)

^aNumbers may not sum to totals because of missing data. Percentages were calculated considering the missing data.