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

Table 4

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

Healthcare	Accessing		Understanding		Appraising		Applying
		95% CI		95% CI		95% CI		95% CI
Gender		(0.07 to 0.26)		(0.09 to 0.24)		(−0.01 to 0.23)		(0.02 to 0.27)
Study year	−0.03	(−0.06 to 0.03)	−0.01	(−0.08 to 0.06)	−0.02	(−0.10 to 0.07)	−0.03	(−0.10 to 0.05)
Studied courses related to health education	0.06	(0.04 to 0.20)	0.07	(0.03 to 0.24)	0.07	(0.04 to 0.27)	0.06	(0.06 to 0.21)
Number of health education courses per week	0.01	(−0.03 to 0.03)	0.07	(−0.02 to 0.09)	0.01	(−0.05 to 0.06)	−0.01	(−0.05 to 0.05)
	,		,		,		,
Disease prevention	Accessing		Understanding		Appraising		Applying
		95% CI		95% CI		95% CI		95% CI
Gender		(0.02 to 0.31)		(0.04 to 0.30)		(−0.01 to 0.23)	0.04	(0.08 to 0.27)
Study year	0.02	(−0.07 to 0.09)	−0.01	(−0.08 to 0.06)	0.03	(−0.03 to 0.10)	−0.02	(−0.12 to 0.07)
Studied courses related to health education	0.08	(0.03 to 0.37)	0.04	(0.08 to 0.24)	0.06	(0.06 to 0.25)	0.04	(0.12 to 0.34)
Number of health education courses per week	0.05	(−0.03 to 0.09)	0.03	(−0.03 to 0.07)	0.02	(−0.04 to 0.07)	−0.03	(−0.08 to 0.05)
	,		,		,		,
Health promotion	Accessing		Understanding		Appraising		Applying
		95% CI		95% CI		95% CI		95% CI
Gender	0.05	(0.09 to 0.25)		(0.06 to 0.34)	0.05	(0.06 to 0.28)	0.04	( 0.08 to 0.21)
Study year	−0.04	(−0.12 to 0.05)	−0.03	(−0.10 to 0.05)	0.02	(−0.07 to 0.10)	0.04	(−0.05 to 0.11)
Studied courses related to health education		(−0.01 to 0.32)	0.02	(0.15 to 0.23)	0.01	(0.13 to 0.25)	0.03	(0.11 to 0.28)
Number of health education courses per week		(0.01 to 0.12)		(0.01 to 0.12)	0.06	(−0.03 to 0.10)		(0.04 to 0.14)
	,		,		,		,

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