Table 2.
Sociodemographic characteristic and oral health literacy estimates of the 282 study participants
| GROHL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n or mean | % or SD | mean (SD) | P* | |
| Entire sample | 282 | 100 | 11.5 (4.0) | |
| Sex | 0.8 | |||
| female | 251 | 89 | 11.4 (4.0) | |
| male | 31 | 11 | 11.6 (4.0) | |
| Education (categorical) | < 0.0005 | |||
| high school or less | 51 | 18 | 8.6 (4.0) | |
| technical college | 94 | 33 | 11.2 (3.7) | |
| university | 81 | 29 | 12.5 (3.7) | |
| graduate | 56 | 20 | 13.0 (3.8) | |
| years (mean, SD) | 15 | 2.8 | ||
| Age (years; quartiles) | 0.5 | |||
| Q1 range: 23.5, 35.7 | 33 | 2.8 | 11.0 (3.7) | |
| Q2 range: 35.7, 38.7 | 37 | 0.8 | 11.3 (3.8) | |
| Q3 range: 38.8, 43.1 | 41 | 1.3 | 11.6 (4.0) | |
| Q4 range: 43.2, 69.8 | 48 | 6.5 | 11.9 (4.4) | |
| years (mean, SD) | 39 | 6.9 | ||
| Marital | 0.2 | |||
| single | 18 | 6 | 11.6 (3.9) | |
| married | 246 | 87 | 11.3 (4.0) | |
| divorced, separated, widowed | 18 | 6 | 13.2 (3.6) | |
| Number of children | 0.6 | |||
| 0 | 19 | 7 | 12.2 (4.0) | |
| 1 | 79 | 28 | 11.5 (3.3) | |
| 2 | 154 | 55 | 11.5 (4.1) | |
| 3 or more | 30 | 11 | 10.7 (4.6) | |
| Foreign-born | 0.8 | |||
| no | 271 | 96 | 11.4 (4.0) | |
| yes | 11 | 4 | 11.8 (3.7) | |
| Primary language | 0.9 | |||
| Greek | 279 | 99 | 11.5 (4.0) | |
| other | 3 | 1 | 11.7 (5.5) | |
SD Standard deviation
*derived from analyses of variance (ANOVA)