Examining the Interrelations Among Objective and Subjective Health Literacy and Numeracy and Their Associations with Health Knowledge.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Health literacy and numeracy influence many health-related behaviors and outcomes. Health literacy and numeracy have been assessed objectively and subjectively, but interrelationships among the measures and the consistency of their association with health knowledge have not been examined. OBJECTIVE:To increase understanding of the structure and interrelations among objective and subjective health literacy and numeracy and how these constructs relate to knowledge of risk factors of two major diseases. DESIGN:Secondary analysis of cross-sectional survey data, weighted to be representative of the general US population of non-institutionalized adults. PARTICIPANTS:Participants (N = 1005, 55.2% response rate) were recruited from GfK KnowledgePanel. The unweighted sample included 52%

SUBMITTER: Waters EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6206359 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature