Table 3.
DHL stratified by sociodemographic characteristics.
| Information Seeking | Evaluating Reliability | Determining Relevance | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Limited n (%) |
Sufficient n (%) |
χ2 (df) | p | V | Limited n (%) |
Sufficient n (%) |
χ2 (df) | p | V | Limited n (%) |
Sufficient n (%) |
χ2 (df) | p | V |
| Gender | 28.42 (1) | <0.001 | 0.10 | 52.42 (1) | <0.001 | 0.13 | 3.67 (1) | 0.056 | NA | ||||||
| Female | 1445 (67.9) | 684 (32.1) | 1169 (55.8) | 927 (44.2) | 1368 (64.8) | 743 (35.2) | |||||||||
| Male | 521 (57.8) | 381 (42.2) | 368 (41.3) | 523 (58.7) | 544 (61.1) | 346 (38.9) | |||||||||
| Age | 18.61 (3) | <0.001 | 0.08 | 43.91 (3) | <0.001 | 0.12 | 3.49 (3) | 0.323 | NA | ||||||
| 20 years or less | 688 (69.1) | 307 (30.9) | 561 (57.5) | 415 (42.5) | 646 (65.5) | 340 (34.5) | |||||||||
| 21–23 years | 768 (64.4) | 424 (35.6) | 610 (51.9) | 566 (48.1) | 748 (63.4) | 432 (36.6) | |||||||||
| 24–26 years | 362 (62.4) | 218 (37.6) | 273 (47.6) | 301 (52.4) | 362 (63.2) | 211 (36.8) | |||||||||
| 27 years or more | 148 (56.1) | 116 (43.9) | 93 (35.6) | 168 (64.4) | 156 (59.5) | 106 (40.5) | |||||||||
| Level of study | 7.88 (2) | 0.019 | 0.05 | 33.42 (2) | <0.001 | 0.11 | 1.25 (2) | 0.536 | NA | ||||||
| 1st Bologna | 1056 (65.7) | 552 (34.3) | 886 (56.3) | 687 (43.7) | 1022 (64.5) | 562 (35.5) | |||||||||
| 2nd Bologna | 879 (64.6) | 481 (35.4) | 628 (46.5) | 723 (53.5) | 852 (62.9) | 502 (37.1) | |||||||||
| 3rd Bologna | 30 (48.4) | 32 (51.6) | 23 (37.1) | 39 (62.9) | 37 (59.7) | 25 (40.3) | |||||||||
| SSS | 10.28 (2) | 0.006 | 0.06 | 11.25 (2) | 0.004 | 0.06 | 10.05 (2) | 0.007 | 0.06 | ||||||
| Low | 288 (67.9) | 136 (32.1) | 217 (52.5) | 196 (47.5) | 279 (66.7) | 139 (33.3) | |||||||||
| Middle | 1310 (65.9) | 679 (34.1) | 1042 (53.1) | 920 (46.9) | 1272 (64.7) | 693 (35.3) | |||||||||
| High | 368 (59.5) | 250 (40.5) | 278 (45.4) | 334 (54.6) | 361 (58.4) | 257 (41.6) | |||||||||
Note: Relevant effect sizes are highlighted in bold. χ2 is chi-square, df are degrees of freedom, p is p-value, and V is Cramér’s V.