Table 3.
HL-COVID levels by participants’ sociodemographic characteristics.
| Study Population | Coronavirus-Related Health Literacy Levels (%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Excellent | Sufficient | Limited | |||
| Total (n = 3500) | |||||
| Sex | n | % | |||
| Male | 1685 | 48.1 | 49.9 | 20.2 | 29.9 |
| Female | 1815 | 51.9 | 48.7 | 21.2 | 30.1 |
| Age | |||||
| 18–29 | 468 | 13.4 | 56.6 | 21.6 | 21.8 |
| 30–44 | 826 | 23.6 | 50.6 | 21.2 | 28.2 |
| 45–64 | 1254 | 35.8 | 49.1 | 18.5 | 32.4 |
| 65+ | 952 | 27.2 | 44.8 | 22.8 | 32.5 |
| Education | |||||
| Low | 1470 | 42.0 | 47.2 | 21.0 | 31.8 |
| Medium | 1299 | 37.1 | 49.7 | 20.6 | 29.7 |
| High | 731 | 20.9 | 52.8 | 20.3 | 27.0 |
| Geographic area | |||||
| Northwest | 939 | 26.8 | 50.3 | 19.3 | 30.5 |
| Northeast | 710 | 20.3 | 45.2 | 24.7 | 30.1 |
| Center | 681 | 19.5 | 54.2 | 20.6 | 25.3 |
| South and islands | 1170 | 33.4 | 48.1 | 19.6 | 32.3 |
| Financial deprivation | |||||
| No | 1478 | 44.6 | 57.7 | 21.0 | 21.2 |
| Low | 539 | 16.3 | 50.1 | 20.2 | 29.7 |
| Medium | 743 | 22.4 | 43.3 | 21.8 | 34.9 |
| High | 552 | 16.7 | 34.6 | 19.0 | 46.4 |
| Quartile of GEN-HL | |||||
| First | 896 | 25.6 | 12.4 | 17.9 | 69.8 |
| Second | 854 | 24.4 | 36.0 | 32.7 | 31.4 |
| Third | 875 | 25.0 | 60.9 | 25.5 | 13.6 |
| Fourth | 875 | 25.0 | 88.5 | 7.2 | 4.3 |
| HL Vaccination | |||||
| Excellent | 1580 | 47.5 | 70.1 | 17.2 | 12.7 |
| Sufficient | 670 | 20.1 | 36.4 | 27.3 | 36.4 |
| Limited | 1077 | 32.4 | 17.8 | 20.1 | 62.1 |