Research Article

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

Table 3

Multiple regression analysis for the influence of demographics and study relation to health education variables on health literacy.

General health literacy Healthcare Disease prevention Health promotion
95% CI95% CI95% CI95% CI

Gender(0.75 to 3.03)(1.19 to 3.73)(0.48 to 3.17)(−0.04 to 2.72)
Study year−0.02(−0.58 to 0.55)−0.01(−0.69 to 0.57)0.01(−0.61 to 0.72)−0.03(−0.69 to 0.64)
Studied courses related to health education0.04(0.78 to 2.02)0.08(0.17 to 2.96)0.05(0.67 to 2.65)0.03(1.05 to 2.26)
Number of health education courses per week0.06(−0.15 to 0.67)0.01(−0.41 to 0.51)0.03(−0.37 to 0.60)(0.14 to 1.11)
, , , ,

Note. Analyses are based on mean per item; statistically significant , , and .