Table 3.

Associations of Personal Characteristics With Internet Use and High eHealth Literacy.

	Internet users			High eHealth literacy
	n = 200			n = 106
Personal characteristics	n	%	p valuea	n	%	p valuea
Total	106	53.0	—	52	49.1	—
Age in years			<.01			.40
55-59	36	65.5		14	38.9
60-64	39	61.9		22	57.9
65-69	22	42.3		12	54.5
70 and older	9	30.0		4	44.4
Gender			.67			.61
Male	46	54.7		21	46.7
Female	60	51.7		31	51.7
Ethnicity			<.01			.10
White	54	67.5		31	57.4
Minority	52	43.3		21	41.2
Education			<.01			.14
High school or less	53	40.8		22	42.3
Greater than high school	53	75.7		30	56.6
Employment			.18			.53
Not employed	81	50.6		41	51.3
Employed	25	62.5		11	44.0
Poverty level			.01			.16
200% of poverty or less	81	50.6		37	46.3
Greater than 200% of poverty level	24	75.0		15	62.5

^achi-square test.