Limited Functional Health Literacy, Health Information Sources, and Health Behavior among Community-Dwelling Older Adults in Japan

Table 1

Distribution of responses and mean scores on the functional health literacy scale (𝑛=620).

While reading instructions or leaflets from hospitals/pharmacies, you…	Number (%)				Means ± SD
	Never	Seldom	Sometime	Often
Found the print too small to read	182 (29.4)	196 (31.6)	155 (25.0)	87 (14.0)	2.76±1.02
Found characters and words that you did not know	112 (18.1)	185 (29.8)	235 (37.9)	88 (14.2)	2.52±0.95
Found that the content was too difficult	114 (18.4)	197 (31.8)	215 (34.7)	94 (15.2)	2.53±0.96
Needed a long time to read and understand	114 (18.4)	219 (35.3)	188 (30.3)	99 (16.0)	2.56±0.97
Needed someone to help you read	274 (44.2)	132 (21.3)	144 (23.2)	70 (11.3)	2.98±1.06
Total score on the five items					2.67±0.86