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Table 1

General Characteristics of the Subjects and Functional Health Literacy Levels according to Selected Respondent Characteristics (N=103)

^*Scheffe test.

Table 2

Health Literacy Levels, Proportion of Patients Correctly Answering Numeracy Items and Reading Comprehension Passages (N=103)

Table 3

Zero-Order Correlation Coefficients among the Study Variables^*

^*All variables entered in the analysis were continuous variables.

Table 4

The Influence of Health Literacy on Perceived Health Status in Older Adults (N=103)

^*Dummy coded.

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