Understanding and using comparative healthcare information; the effect of the amount of information and consumer characteristics and skills

Table 5 Hierarchical regression models with regression coefficients (Beta) predicting the outcome measures [N = 349]

	Comprehension of information			Ease of hospital choice			Usefulness of information
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
Predictors
Male (female = reference)	-.01	.04	.03	-.02	.02	.03	.01	.04	.05
Age	-.32**	-.28**	-.29**	-.16*	-.15*	-.15*	-.11	-.13*	-.12*
Education level	.29**	.18**	.18**	.16*	.09	.09	.10*	.06	.06
Literacy		.22**	.22**		.15*	.15*		.07	.08
Numeracy		.13*	.14*		.07	.08		.09	.09
Active choice behaviour		.04	.05		.13	.13		.24**	.23**
Amount of information
3 aspects (reference)			-			-			-
7 aspects			-.12*			.11			.16*
11 aspects			-.08			-.05			.10
15 aspects			-.04			.01			.04
R²	0.19**	0.26**	0.27**	0.05**	0.09**	0.11**	0.02	0.09**	0.11**
Change in R²		0.07**	0.01		0.04*	0.02*		0.07**	0.02

* p < 0.05 ** p < 0.001.
For the outcome measure ‘correct hospital choice’ no regression models were estimated, due to the skew distribution of this outcome measure.

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