Table 4.
Health literacy according to the health behaviours of study subjects
| Overall | Health literacy | P* | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inadequate/problematic | Sufficient | |||
| (N = 2433) | (N = 374) | (N = 2059) | ||
| Smoking | ||||
| Smokera | 647 (26.6) | 81 (21.7) | 566 (27.5) | 0.038 |
| Former smokera | 499 (20.5) | 75 (20.1) | 424 (20.6) | |
| Non-smoker | 1287 (52.9) | 218 (58.3) | 1069 (51.9) | |
| Alcohol consumption | ||||
| Non-drinker | 838 (34.4) | 184 (49.2) | 654 (31.8) | < 0.001 |
| Light drinkerb | 1476 (60.7) | 174 (46.5) | 1302 (63.2) | |
| Heavy drinkerb | 119 (4.9) | 16 (4.3) | 103 (5.0) | |
| Physical activity | ||||
| Healthy | 1493 (69.7) | 159 (61.9) | 1334 (70.8) | 0.003 |
| Non-healthy | 648 (30.3) | 98 (38.1) | 550 (29.2) | |
| Health coverage | ||||
| Only public health coverage | 1764 (72.6) | 297 (79.4) | 1467 (71.4) | 0.02 |
| Public and private health coverage | 658 (27.1) | 77 (20.6) | 581 (28.3) | |
| Only private health coverage | 3 (0.1) | – | 3 (0.1) | |
| No health insurance | 4 (0.2) | – | 4 (0.2) | |
| Preventive activities | 1498 (61.6) | 281 (75.1) | 1217 (59.1) | < 0.001 |
| Self-medication | 294 (12.1) | 261 (12.7) | 33 (8.8) | 0.035 |
| Self-consumption of dietary/ homeopathic products | 72 (3.0) | 17 (4.5) | 55 (2.7) | 0.049 |
*Differences between inadequate/problematic and sufficient HL, assessed with Chi-square tests
aComparisons between non-smoker category (significance level using Bonferroni correction p < 0.008)
bComparisons between non-drinker category (significance level using Bonferroni correction p < 0.008)