Health literacy total score of Medical Aid patients and Health Insurance patients according to general and health related characteristics
| Characteristics | Categories | Medical Aid patients | Health Insurance patients | P-value |
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| Total score | P-value | Total score | P-value | ||||
| Sex | Male | 12.69±4.44 | 0.040 |
16.67±7.67 | 0.760 | 0.093 | |
| Female | 9.40±4.03 | 15..96±6.80 | 0.001 | ||||
| Age | 40–59 | 13.00±4.15 | 0.255 | 15.96±7.69 | 0.789 | 0.375 | |
| ≥60 | 10.64±4.54 | 16.56±6.26 | 0.001 | ||||
| Educational period (y) | ≤12 | 11.10±4.50 | - | 14.26±6.51 | 0.046 | 0.039 | |
| >12 | - | 18.58±7.08 | - | ||||
| Occupation | Office worker | - | 0.364 | 21.31±5.74 | 0.012 |
- | |
| Sales position and services | 18.00±0.00 | 16.00±6.57 | 0.782 | ||||
| Technical position | 11.67±3.79 | 11.89±7.39 | 0.962 | ||||
| Housewife | 8.67±6.43 | 13.25±5.68 | 0.277 | ||||
| Unemployed | 11.04±4.32 | 8.00±0.00 | 0.497 | ||||
| Others | - | 18.33±2.52 | - | ||||
| Marital status | Single | 12.44±4.00 | 0.194 | 20.50±13.44 | 0.598 | 0.551 | |
| Married | 7.20±1.79 | 16.07±6.60 | 0.006 | ||||
| Divorced | 11.60±4.35 | 18.20±6.98 | 0.041 | ||||
| Bereaved | 11.43±5.77 | 13.40±8.56 | 0.642 | ||||
| Monthly income (10,000 won) | ≤99 | 11.17±4.56 | 0.643 | 11.60±6.54 | 0.391 | 0.854 | |
| 100–199 | 9.00±0.00 | 12.50±4.95 | 0.667 | ||||
| 200–299 | - | 15.67±7.29 | - | ||||
| 300–500 | 18.55±7.66 | - | |||||
| ≥500 | - | 17.17±6.42 | - | ||||
| Number of diseases | 0 | 12.33±5.51 | 0.396 | 17.36±4.13 | 0.964 | 0.089 | |
| 1 | 11.33±5.99 | 16.44±8.78 | 0.201 | ||||
| 2 | 8.50±2.59 | 15.71±6.87 | 0.033 | ||||
| 3 | 11.75±4.46 | 17.00±0.00 | 0.304 | ||||
| 4 | 15.67±3.22 | - | - | ||||
| ≥5 | 10.67±4.16 | - | - | ||||
| Smoking status | Non-smoking | 10.32±4.26 | 0.299 | 16.16±6.69 | 0.978 | 0.002 | |
| Smoking | 13.25±4.68 | 16.71±8.02 | 0.317 | ||||
| Ex-smoking | 10.50±5.06 | 16.00±7.94 | 0.229 | ||||
| Drinking status | Non-drinking | 10.50±4.80 | 0.455 | 16.67±6.41 | 0.723 | 0.004 | |
| Drinking | 11.73±4.22 | 15.88±7.59 | 0.035 | ||||
| Health information source | TV/radio | 10.68±4.76 | 0.502 | 13.76±6.01 | 0.382 | 0.082 | |
| Newspaper/book | 16.00±0.00 | 16.14±9.41 | 0.989 | ||||
| Internet | 15.00±0.00 | 17.78±5.29 | 0.632 | ||||
| Health care provider | 8.00±2.83 | 19.33±8.26 | 0.119 | ||||
| Acquaintances | 12.40±3.65 | 19.33±8.51 | 0.149 | ||||
| Awareness of health condition | Very good | 16.00±0.00 | 0.495 | 13.50±12.02 | 0.414 | 0.893 | |
| Good | 10.00±0.00 | 20.00±7.68 | 0.300 | ||||
| Average | 9.11±4.26 | 16.58±6.77 | 0.004 | ||||
| Bad | 11.71±4.67 | 13.50±7.09 | 0.456 | ||||
| Very bad | 12.33±4.51 | - | - | ||||
Values are presented as mean±standard deviation.
-, not available.
aP-values for linear trend. bP-values for comparison between Medical Aid patients and Health Insurance patients.
P-values are calculated by t-test and ANOVA test.