Table 2.

Pearson’s correlation coefficients between total health literacy score and its components with elderly people’s age

Components of health literacy	Age
	r	P
Total score	−0.387	<0.001
Access	−0.392	<0.001
Reading skill	−0.250	<0.001
Comprehension	−0.372	<0.001
Evaluation	−0.320	<0.001
Decision-making and information application	−0.382	<0.001