Table 6.

The participants’ (N = 17) levels of health literacy at baseline, at the end of the intervention and at 6-month follow-up

Health literacy levels		Time points
	Baseline n	End of intervention n	6-month follow-up n	P-valuea	P-valueb	P-valuec	P-valued
Swedish FHL scale, n				1.00’	0.73’	0.48’	0.77▫
Sufficient	5	3	4
Problematic	9	13	7
Inadequate	3	1	4
Missing	0	0	2
Swedish C & C HL scale, n				0.25’	0.02’	0.02’	0.01▫
Sufficient	2	3	8
Problematic	9	9	3
Inadequate	5	3	3
Missing	1	2	3

FHL Functional Health Literacy, C & C HL Communicative and Critical Health Literacy

^aBaseline vs end of the intervention; ^bBaseline vs 6-month follow-up; ^cEnd of the intervention vs 6-month follow-up; ^dComparison between all three assessment points

^‘Wilcoxon signed rank test; ▫Friedman’s test