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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 4:

Participant characteristics associated with correctly determining that an abortion clinic did provide abortion

Variables	OR (95% CI)	P-value

Language proficiency		0.042
English speaking	Reference
Spanish speaking	0.60 (0.39, 0.92)	0.019
Bilingual	1.29 (0.77, 2.15)	0.332
Heard of CPC	1.62 (1.22, 2.15)	0.001
Personal views on abortion		0.004
Abortion is morally acceptable and should be legal	Reference
Abortion is morally wrong and should be illegal	0.52 (0.35, 0.76)	0.001
Personally against abortion, but the government should not prevent a woman from making that decision	0.71 (0.51, 0.98)	0.037
Have accompanied someone else to an abortion	1.91 (1.03, 3.55)	0.019
Health literacy score		<0.001
Adequate literacy	Reference
Possibly limited literacy	0.41 (0.28, 0.61)	<0.001
High likelihood of limited literacy	0.26 (0.16, 0.42)	<0.001
Abortion myths score		<0.001
≤ 25^th percentile	Reference
26^th - 75^th percentiles	1.71 (1.27, 2.31)	<0.001
> 75^th percentile	2.53 (1.63, 3.92)	<0.001

Caption: 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.