Is Health Education at University Associated with Students’ Health Literacy? Evidence from Cross-Sectional Study Applying HLS-EU-Q

Table 1

Health literacy index.

Health literacy domain	Mean of  HL index (SD)	Cronbach’s	Levels of health literacy (%)
			Inadequate HL	Problematic; HL	Sufficient; HL	Excellent; HL
General HL	35.5 (7.4)	0.96	6.9	26.2	43.5	23.5
Healthcare	36.1 (8.2)	0.90	7.4	21.8	42.7	28.1
Disease prevention	35.5 (8.6)	0.87	10.0	25.8	33.5	30.7
Health promotion	35.0 (8.7)	0.89	12.2	27.4	33.4	27.0

Note. HL: health literacy.