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Table 6 The participants’ (N = 17) levels of health literacy at baseline, at the end of the intervention and at 6-month follow-up

From: An app for supporting older people receiving home care – usage, aspects of health and health literacy: a quasi-experimental study

Health literacy levels

 

Time points

     

Baseline

n

End of intervention

n

6-month follow-up n

P-valuea

P-valueb

P-valuec

P-valued

Swedish FHL scale, n

   

1.00’

0.73’

0.48’

0.77

 Sufficient

5

3

4

    

 Problematic

9

13

7

    

 Inadequate

3

1

4

    

 Missing

0

0

2

    

Swedish C & C HL scale, n

   

0.25’

0.02’

0.02’

0.01

 Sufficient

2

3

8

    

 Problematic

9

9

3

    

 Inadequate

5

3

3

    

 Missing

1

2

3

    
  1. FHL Functional Health Literacy, C & C HL Communicative and Critical Health Literacy
  2. aBaseline vs end of the intervention; bBaseline vs 6-month follow-up; cEnd of the intervention vs 6-month follow-up; dComparison between all three assessment points
  3. Wilcoxon signed rank test; ▫Friedman’s test