Complementary Medicine Health Literacy among a Population of Older Australians Living in Retirement Villages: A Mixed Methods Study

Table 3

Participant response to the health literacy scales of the HLQ.

Health literacy scale		M	SD
How strongly do you disagree or agree (1–4 point scale)
Having sufficient information to manage my health	69	3.20	0.54
Feeling understood and supported by health care providers	71	3.19	0.52
Actively managing my health	71	3.14	0.44
Social support for health	71	3.00	0.54
Appraisal of health information	69	2.90	0.49
How difficult or easy the following tasks are for you now (5 point scale cannot do to always easy)
Ability to actively engage with health care providers	69	4.03	0.62
Understand health information well enough to know what to do	70	4.00	0.58
Ability to find good information	70	3.84	0.65
Navigating the health care system	71	3.88	0.61

M: mean; SD: standard deviation.