All N = 384 | English N = 307 | Arabic N = 22 | Chinese N = 8 | Greek N = 18 | Italian N = 28 | Vietnamese N = 1 | |
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Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean | |
Health Literacy Questionnaire (HLQ) | |||||||
Feeling understood and supported by healthcare providersa | 3.13 (0.57) | 3.17 (0.57) | 2.92 (0.50) | 3.06 (0.40) | 3.01 (0.33) | 2.91 (0.71) | 3.25 |
Having sufficient information to manage healtha | 2.97 (0.52) | 2.98 (0.52) | 2.81 (0.52) | 2.91 (0.30) | 2.9 (0.27) | 2.98 (0.70) | 3.00 |
Actively managing my healtha | 2.93 (0.52) | 2.93 (0.52) | 2.87 (0.53) | 2.95 (0.54) | 2.93 (0.34) | 3.05 (0.61) | 2.80 |
Social support for healtha | 3.11 (0.55) | 3.12 (0.55) | 3.08 (0.46) | 2.93 (0.59) | 3.19 (0.43) | 3.06 (0.66) | 2.80 |
Appraisal of health informationa | 2.82 (0.52) | 2.81 (0.52) | 2.93 (0.47) | 2.9 (0.44) | 2.89 (0.42) | 2.83 (0.67) | 3.00 |
Ability to actively engage with health care providersb | 3.82 (0.78) | 3.93 (0.71) | 3.7 (0.64) | 3.43 (0.82) | 3.33 (0.95) | 3.21 (1.06) | 4.00 |
Navigating the healthcare systemb | 3.63 (0.75) | 3.73 (0.69) | 3.46 (0.73) | 3.17 (0.79) | 2.97 (0.81) | 3.26 (1.02) | 4.00 |
Ability to find good health informationb | 3.56 (0.80) | 3.67 (0.73) | 3.44 (0.77) | 3.33 (0.87) | 2.65 (0.99) | 3.14 (0.95) | 3.20 |
Reading and understanding health information enough to know what to dob | 3.85 (0.78) | 3.97 (0.67) | 3.85 (0.72) | 3.28 (1.00) | 3.21 (0.89) | 3.19 (1.12) | 3.00 |
Hospital service use | |||||||
Length of stay, days | 4 (8) | 5 (9) | 4 (5) | 3 (2) | 5 (4) | 5 (5) | 1 |
Number of hospital admissions in the last 12 months at this hospital | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 1 (0) | 1 (0) | 1 (1) | 2 (1) | 1 |
Number of non-urgent ED presentations in the last 12 months at this hospital | 1 (4) | 1 (4) | 0 (1) | 0 (1) | 1 (1) | 1 (3) | 0 |