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 .
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