The relationship between health literacy and health-related quality of life among school-aged children in regional China

Table 2 Distribution of adequate HL and Mean utility scores of HRQoL of participants in this study

	Number of participants	Having adequate HL^a		χ² value^b	P value^b	CHU9D score		t/F value^c	P value^c
	Number of participants	n	% (95% CI)	χ² value^b	P value^b	Mean	SD	t/F value^c	P value^c
Overall	4 388	3 764	85.8 (84.7, 86.8)	–	–	0.78	0.17	–	–
Gender (%)
Boys	2 204	1 818	82.5 (80.8, 84.1)	39.37	< 0.001	0.79	0.18	2.39	0.017
Girls	2 184	1 946	89.1 (87.7, 90.4)			0.78	0.17
School type
Primary school	1 602	1 182	73.8 (71.6, 75.9)	310.89	< 0.001	0.84	0.16	159.46	< 0.001
Junior high school	1 455	1 315	90.4 (88.7, 91.8)			0.78	0.16
Senior high school	1 331	1 267	95.2 (93.9, 96.3)			0.73	0.18
Residence area (%)
Rural	2 030	1 779	87.6 (86.1, 89.0)	11.75	0.003	0.79	0.17	0.889	0.411
Suburban	997	848	85.1 (82.7, 87.2)			0.78	0.18
Urban	1 361	1 137	83.5 (81.4, 85.4)			0.78	0.18
The highest educational level of parents (%)
0–9 schooling years completed	1 264	1 029	81.4 (79.1, 83.5)	34.86	< 0.001	0.76	0.17	12.94	< 0.001
10–12 schooling years completed	1 415	1 213	85.7 (83.7, 87.5)			0.78	0.16
13 + schooling years completed	1 709	1 522	89.1 (87.5, 90.5)			0.8	0.18

^aA participant who had adequate HL referring to he/she was measured with a score of at least 25 scores points (80% of the total score)
^bChi-square test was applied to examine between-groups difference for categorical variables
^ct or variance test was used to examine between-groups difference for continuous variables

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