Is the Cloze Procedure Appropriate to Evaluate Health Literacy in Older Individuals? Age Effects in the Test of Functional Health Literacy in Adults

Table 3

Regression models for performance on DIF items for younger and older participants.

			Std. error				Adj	Significance of change with working memory
Models for participants younger than 65
1	Intercept	−2.95	1.13	−2.61	0.01
	Verbal ability	0.05	0.02	2.93	0.004
	Reading	0.06	0.02	3.69	<0.001
	Education	0.02	0.05	2.55	0.01	0.44	0.42
2	Intercept	−2.70	1.14	−2.37	0.2
	Verbal	0.04	0.02	2.71	0.001
	Reading	0.06	0.02	3.43	0.001
	Education	0.12	0.05	2.49	0.01
	Working memory	0.06	0.05	1.36	0.18	0.44	0.43	0.18
Models for participants 65 years of age or older
1	Intercept	0.14	1.28	0.11	0.91
	Verbal ability	−0.01	0.02	−0.67	0.95
	Reading	0.06	0.02	3.21	0.002
	Education	0.22	0.08	2.68	0.009	0.55	0.52
2	Intercept	0.30	1.23	0.24	0.81
	Verbal	−0.003	0.02	−0.16	0.87
	Reading	0.5	0.02	2.54	0.01
	Education	0.23	0.08	2.87	0.006
	Working memory	0.19	0.08	2.41	0.02	0.59	0.56	0.02