The Relationship between Health Literacy and Health Behaviour in People with Diabetes: A Danish Population-Based Study

Table 3

Association between health literacy dimensions and health behaviour among individuals with diabetes from the “How Are You?” survey, Central Denmark Region (2013) (,685).

	⁢Daily smoking		⁢High-risk alcohol consumption		⁢Physically inactive		⁢Unhealthy dietary habits
	Unadjusted OR; (95% CI)	Adjusted OR; (95% CI)	Unadjusted OR; (95% CI)	Adjusted OR; (95% CI)	Unadjusted OR; (95% CI)	Adjusted OR; (95% CI)	Unadjusted OR; (95% CI)	Adjusted OR; (95% CI)
Understand health information
Difficult/very difficult	0.94 (0.55–1.60)	0.87 (0.47–1.59)	1.56 (0.76–3.19)	2.09 (0.90–4.81)	4.50 (2.85–7.11)	3.43 (2.14–5.51)	3.11 (1.79–5.40)	3.01 (1.63–5.58)
Easy/very easy	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
Actively engage with healthcare providers
Difficult/very difficult	1.07 (0.64–1.80)	1.03 (0.59–1.79)	1.18 (0.54–2.58)	1.45 (0.63–3.34)	2.83 (1.85–4.34)	2.72 (1.76–4.20)	2.59 (1.48–4.52)	2.73 (1.51–4.94)
Easy/very easy	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

OR adjusted for gender, age, ethnic background, educational attainment, and marital status.
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CI: confidence interval.