Health literacy, cognitive ability and smoking: a cross-sectional analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We used logistic regression to investigate whether health literacy and cognitive ability independently predicted whether participants have ever smoked and, in ever smokers, whether participants still smoked nowadays.

Design

Cross-sectional study.

Setting

This study used data from Wave 2 (2004-05) of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, which is a cohort study of adults who live in England and who, at baseline, were aged 50 years and older.

Participants

8734 (mean age=65.31 years, SD=10.18) English Longitudinal Study of Ageing participants who answered questions about their current and past smoking status, and completed cognitive ability and health literacy tests at Wave 2.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The primary outcome measure

SUBMITTER: Fawns-Ritchie C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6224719 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature