Table 2.

Correlation between self-care behavior and health literacy using spearman analysis.

		Accessing	Understanding	Appraising	Applying	Communication/Interaction	Health Literacy
Self-care behavior	Spearman’s rho	0.29	0.29	0.26	0.19	0.18	0.31
	p-value	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001	0.006	0.009	<0.001
Diet	Spearman’s rho	0.35	0.25	0.20	0.18	0.20	0.31
	p-value	<0.001	<0.001	0.004	0.01	0.004	<0.001
Exercise	Spearman’s rho	0.15	0.22	0.16	0.14	0.07	0.18
	p-value	0.03	0.002	0.02	0.04	0.29	0.009
Home blood pressure monitoring	Spearman’s rho	0.28	0.18	0.16	0.18	0.15	0.26
	p-value	<0.001	0.01	0.02	0.01	0.03	<0.001
Smoking habit	Spearman’s rho	0.03	0.07	0.07	0.05	0.03	0.09
	p-value	0.65	0.32	0.35	0.47	0.68	0.22
Medication adherence	Spearman’s rho	−0.08	0.06	0.13	−0.06	0.03	−0.01
	p-value	0.26	0.36	0.06	0.43	0.63	0.85