Table 2.
Moderators: Demographical and lack of resources characteristics and its associations with the level of literacy among the participants attending Women’s Wellness and Research Centre in Qatar, 2019 (N = 304).
| Socio-demographic characteristics | Total | Health Literacy Level | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inadequate (< score 4) | Adequate (>score 4) | |||||||
| N = 304 | (%) | n | (%) | n | (%) | χ2 | OR,95%CI | |
| Age (years) | ||||||||
| [20–24] | 24 | (7.9) | 15 | (62.5) | 9 | (37.5) | ||
| [25–29] | 105 | (34.5) | 49 | (46.7) | 56 | (53.3) | ||
| [30–34] | 129 | (42.4) | 57 | (44.2) | 72 | (55.8) | 3.2 | – |
| [35–39] | 46 | (15.1) | 17 | (37.0) | 29 | (63.0) | ||
|
Mean + SD [30 + 3.9] Range [20–39] | ||||||||
| Nationality | ||||||||
| Qatari | 79 | (26) | 35 | (44.3) | 44 | (55.7) | 0.01 | 1.0 [0.6–1.7] |
| Non-Qatari | 225 | (74) | 103 | (45.8) | 122 | (54.2) | ||
| Ethnicity | ||||||||
| Arabs | 298 | (98) | 137 | (46.6) | 161 | (54.4) | 0.38a | 0.2 [0.02–2] |
| Non-Arabs | 6 | (2) | 1 | (16.7) | 5 | (83.3) | ||
| Educational level | ||||||||
| Secondary* | 144 | (47.4) | 75 | (52.1) | 69 | (47.9) | 4.7 | 1.6 [1.1–2.6] |
| University | 160 | (52.6) | 63 | (39.4) | 97 | (60.6) | ||
| Occupation | ||||||||
| Housewife* | 140 | (46.1) | 71 | (50.7) | 69 | (49.3) | 4.0 | 1.6 [1.1–2.5] |
| Working | 164 | (53.9) | 67 | (40.9) | 97 | (59.1) | ||
| Household income (QR) | ||||||||
| < 10,000 * | 1 | (0.3) | 0 | (0) | 1 | (100) | – | |
| 10,001–20,000 | 160 | (52.6) | 58 | (53.1) | 75 | (46.9) | 8.1 | |
| < 20,001 | 143 | (47) | 53 | (37.1) | 90 | (62.9) | ||
n number of observations in the sample, N population inference based on weights and sampling design; % estimated prevalence based on weighted frequencies, QR Qatari Riyal, OR Odd Ratio; *p value < 0.05; a Fisher test, χ2 Chi-square