The role of health literacy in explaining the association between educational attainment and the use of out-of-hours primary care services in chronically ill people: a survey study

Table 4 Unadjusted coefficients (B) for bivariate associations between education and HLQ scales, linear regression

	Feeling understood and supported by healthcare providers (n = 1704)	Having sufficient information to manage my health (n = 1700)	Actively managing my health (n = 1682)	Social support for health (n = 1698)	Appraisal of health information (n = 1683)	Ability to actively engage with healthcare providers (n = 1669)	Navigating the healthcare system (n = 1680)	Ability to find good health information (n = 1669)	Understanding health information well enough to know what to do (n = 1671)
	B (95% CI)^a	B (95% CI)^a	B (95% CI)^a	B (95% CI)^a	B (95% CI)^a	B (95% CI)^a	B (95% CI)^a	B (95% CI)^a	B (95% CI)^a
Education
intermediate	0.03 (− 0.03; 0.09)	0.06 (0.02; 0.11)**	0.02 (− 0.02; 0.07)	0.00 (− 0.06; 0.05)	0.05 (− 0.01; 0.10)	0.17 (0.10; 0.24)***	0.20 (0.13; 0.27)***	0.26 (0.20; 0.33)***	0.25 (0.19; 0.31)***
High	0.04 (−0.03; 0.10)	0.09 (0.04; 0.14)**	0.01 (−0.04; 0.07)	0.01 (−0.05; 0.07)	0.11 (0.05; 0.17)***	0.32 (0.24; 0.40)***	0.29 (0.21; 0.37)***	0.40 (0.33; 0.48)***	0.44 (0.37; 0.51)***

^a P-value * < 0.05, ** < 0.01, *** < 0.001, significant results printed in bold
^b Reference is low education

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