Health Literacy Influences Heart Failure Knowledge Attainment but Not Self-Efficacy for Self-Care or Adherence to Self-Care over Time

Table 2

Participant characteristics and their significant associations or differences in study outcomes.

	Knowledge			Self-efficacy		Self-Care maintenance
	Baseline	2 months	4 months	Baseline	2 months	4 months
Age*
𝑟	−0.342	−0.482	−0.339	—	—	—
𝑃	0.015	<0.001	<0.001	—	—	—
Years of education*
𝑟	0.364	0.299	—	—	—	—
𝑃	0.010	0.037	—	—	—	—
BMI*
𝑟	—	—	—	−0.339	−0.322	—
𝑃	—	—	—	0.017	0.028	—
Recruitment site**
𝐹	6.535	—	—	4.425	—	3.824
𝑃	0.003	—	—	0.017	—	0.029
Marital status**
𝐹	5.779	5.169	4.789	—	—	—
𝑃	0.002	0.004	0.005	—	—	—

∗Assessed using Pearson correlations.
**Assessed using One-Way Analysis of Variance.