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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Womens Health Issues. 2021 Jul 12;31(5):432–439. doi: 10.1016/j.whi.2021.06.001

Table 3:

Participant characteristics associated with correctly determining that a crisis pregnancy center did not provide abortion

Variables OR (95% CI) P-value

Heard of CPC 1.48 (1.20, 1.82) <0.001
Personal views on abortion 0.006
 Abortion is morally acceptable and should be legal Reference
 Personally against abortion, but the government should not prevent a woman from making that decision 1.16 (0.91, 1.48) 0.221
 Abortion is morally wrong and should be illegal 1.58 (1.19, 2.10) 0.002
Health literacy score <0.001
 Adequate literacy Reference
 Possibly limited literacy 0.81 (0.59, 1.13) 0.219
 High likelihood of limited literacy 0.39 (0.25, 0.59) <0.001
Abortion myths score <0.001
 ≤ 25th percentile Reference
 26th - 75th percentiles 1.22 (0.99, 1.52) 0.066
 > 75th percentile 2.43 (1.78, 3.32) <0.001

Health literacy scale from the Newest Vital Sign (The Newest Vital Sign | Pfizer: One of the World’s Premier Biopharmaceutical Companies, n.d.). Abortion myth score based on five questions asking whether participants thought a common abortion myth or a fact was closer to the truth.