Table 2 Results of Chi-square test and descriptive statistics for health literacy by level of education, language and English comprehension
Items | Level of Education | Health Literacy | χ2(df) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Adequate | Marginal | Inadequate | |||
Degree of assistance required to read and understand medical material | |||||
Item 1. Assistance to read hospital release letter/ summary of doctor’s appointment | Low | 0 (0%) | 2 (40%) | 3 (60%) | 6.91 (2)* |
High | 33 (60%) | 7 (12.7%) | 15 (27.3%) | ||
Item 2. Assistance to understand doctor’s words | Low | 1 (20%) | 1 (20%) | 3 (60%) | 6.8 (2)* |
High | 37 (67.3%) | 10 (18.2%) | 8 (14.5%) | ||
Item 5. Assistance to complete medical forms | Low | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 5 (100%) | 10.13 (2)** |
High | 35 (63.6) | 4 (7.3) | 16 (29.1) | ||
Item 6. Feels confident completing medical forms | Low | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 5 (100%) | 7.64 (2)* |
High | 30 (54.5) | 5 (9.1) | 20 (36.4) | ||
Item 9. Assistance in understanding test results | Low | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 5 (100%) | 8.18 (2)* |
High | 25 (45.5) | 11 (20%) | 19 (34.5%) | ||
Degree of difficulty reading medical information written in Hebrew or English about state of health | |||||
Item 4. Difficulty to read medical information in Hebrew | Low | 1 (20%) | 4 (80%) | 0 (0%) | 15.9*** |
High | 35 (63.6%) | 6 (10.9%) | 14 (25.5%) | ||
Degree to which subjects understand medical information about their state of health | |||||
Item 7. Understands everything the doctor says during an appointment | Low | 1 (20%) | 3 (60%) | 1 (20%) | 12.71 (2)** |
High | 39 (70.9%) | 4 (7.3%) | 12 (21.8%) | ||
Item 13. Understands the medical terms related to state of health | Low | 1 (20%) | 0 (0%) | 4 (80%) | 6.7 (2)* |
High | 24 (43.6%) | 17 (30.9%) | 14 (25.5%) | ||
Ability to seek/obtain/ compare information | Language | ||||
Item 10. Knows how to obtain all the information needed to understand state of health | Hebrew | 9 (45%) | 7 (25%) | 4 (30%) | 9.7 (4)* |
OtheRussian Russian | 4 (28.6%) | 2 (14.3%) | 8 (57.1%) | ||
Russian | 15 (57.7%) | 2 (7.7%) | 9 (34.6%) | ||
Understands English | |||||
Item 11. Knows how to seek information about state of health on the internet | Good a | 12 (60%) | 3 (15%) | 5 (25%) | 9.8 (2)** |
Poor | 11 (27.5%) | 2 (5%) | 27 (67.5%) | ||