Table 2.
Proportions of different health literacy levels by hospital variables.
| Health literacy levels | Private hospital (n = 456) |
Public hospital (n = 492) |
p value | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inadequate | Problematic | Sufficient | Excellent | Inadequate | Problematic | Sufficient | Excellent | |||
| (n = 112) |
(n = 157) |
(n = 145) |
(n = 42) |
(n = 129) |
(n = 188) |
(n = 135) |
(n = 40) |
|||
| (%) | (%) | (%) | (%) | (%) | (%) | (%) | (%) | |||
| General HL | 24.6 | 34.4 | 31.7 | 9.3 | 26.2 | 38.3 | 27.4 | 8.1 | 0.002 | |
| Healthcare literacy | Accessing | 22.8 | 33.2 | 33.3 | 10.7 | 27.8 | 38.7 | 25.6 | 7.9 | 0.006 |
| Understanding | 27.2 | 34.8 | 28.8 | 9.2 | 25.5 | 36.8 | 29.1 | 8.6 | ||
| Appraising | 27.3 | 36.1 | 28.7 | 7.9 | 29.8 | 38.8 | 24.2 | 7.2 | ||
| Applying | 23.0 | 35.9 | 33.1 | 8.0 | 24.3 | 37.5 | 30.3 | 7.9 | ||
| Disease prevention literacy | Accessing | 26.7 | 35.8 | 27.9 | 9.6 | 27.3 | 39.3 | 25.4 | 8.0 | 0.009 |
| Understanding | 21.9 | 33.1 | 35.1 | 9.9 | 23.2 | 36.7 | 31.2 | 8.9 | ||
| Appraising | 22.4 | 33.2 | 34.3 | 10.1 | 24.7 | 36.2 | 29.1 | 10.0 | ||
| Applying | 24.0 | 39.1 | 30.1 | 6.8 | 27.8 | 38.5 | 26.8 | 6.9 | ||
| Health promotion literacy | Accessing | 21.6 | 36.4 | 33.8 | 8.2 | 25.5 | 35.1 | 29.6 | 9.8 | 0.005 |
| Understanding | 27.8 | 36.8 | 27.9 | 7.5 | 28.9 | 40.4 | 26.3 | 4.4 | ||
| Appraising | 22.0 | 32.1 | 35.6 | 10.3 | 24.2 | 36.8 | 30.4 | 8.6 | ||
| Applying | 29.1 | 31.2 | 29.6 | 10.1 | 29.6 | 35.5 | 25.5 | 9.4 | ||
| HL index score | 31.7 (95% CI: 31.5–31.8) | 33.2 (95% CI: 33.0–33.5) | ||||||||
∗Missing data not included; Chi-squared significances P < 0.05 are printed in bold.
CI, confidence interval.