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Table 3 The assessment of sociodemographic and individual characteristics of the participants between general health literacy levels with Ordinal Logit Regression Analysis

From: The relationship between parental health literacy levels and anthropometric measurements of children in Turkey

Independent Variable

Estimate

S.E

Wald

OR

95% CI for OR

p value

Lower

Upper

Gender of parents

       

Male

0.85

0.81

1.11

2.33

0.48

11.32

0.292

Female

0a

      

Age groups of parents

       

19–29

-0.05

0.41

0.01

0.95

0.42

2.13

0.910

Above 30

0a

      

Marital status of parents

       

Married

-0.75

0.65

1.32

0.47

0.13

1.70

0.251

Single

0a

      

Education level of parents

       

University

3.78

0.46

68.77

43.90

17.96

107.33

< 0.001

High school

1.27

0.37

11.59

3.56

1.71

7.41

0.001

Primary school

0a

      

Work status of parents

       

Not working

-0.16

0.30

0.28

0.85

0.473

1.53

0.594

Working

0a

      

Income level of parents

       

Income more than spending

1.39

0.64

4.74

4.02

1.15

14.11

0.029

Income equal to spending

0.11

0.53

0.04

1.11

0.39

3.15

0.836

Income less than spending

0a

      

Number of children of parents

       

1

1.08

0.40

7.32

2.94

1.35

6.41

0.007

2

0.57

0.39

2.17

1.77

0.82

3.80

0.140

Above 3

0a

      

First healthcare provider of parents

       

Hospital

-0.62

0.36

2.93

0.53

0.26

1.09

0.087

Primary health care provider

0a

      

Level of self-assessment of parents

       

Very good

-0.35

0.48

0.53

0.70

0.27

1.81

0.467

Passing

0.01

0.41

0.00

1.06

0.45

2.22

0.988

Good

0a

      
  1. S.E = Standart Error. OR = Odds ratio. Chi-Square = 270.04 df = 14 p < .001.
  2. R-Square = Cox and Snell = 0.511. Link function: Logit.
  3. a. This parameter is set to zero because it is redundant