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Table 1 Socio-demographic variables of pregnant women

From: The relationship between health literacy and empowerment in pregnant women: a cross-sectional study

Variables

N (%)a

Health literacy

Empowerment

  

Mean (SDb)

P-value

Mean (SDb)

P-value

Total

353 (100)

80.03 (12.79)

-

80.30 (8.14)

-

Education

  Illiteracy and elementary

40 (11.3)

79.68 (17.07)

 

78.36 (10.11)

 

  Middle and high school

213 (60.3)

79.71 (12.81)

0.772* *

81.38 (8.32)

0.012* *

  Academic

100 (28.3)

80.81 (10.72)

 

78.80 (6.40)

 

Education of husband

  Illiteracy and elementary

44 (12.5)

77.81 (18.39)

 

81.57 (10.24)

 

  Middle and high school

215 (60.9)

80.36 (12.31)

0.513* *

80.59 (8.28)

0.205* *

  Academic

94 (26.6)

80.25 (10.84)

 

79.03 (6.56)

 

Employment

  Employed

57 (16.1)

77.59 (16.19)

0.113††

78.98 (8.04)

0.202††

  Housewife

296 (83.9)

80.53 (11.93)

 

80.56 (8.15)

 

Type of husband employment

  Worker

93 (26.3)

78.43 (14.88)

 

81.83 (9.07)

 

  Employee

63 (17.8)

81.15 (9.49)

0.357* *

79.10 (5.88)

0.106* *

  Othersc

197 (55.8)

80.43 (12.76)

 

80.00 (8.27)

 

Status of family economic

     

  Moderate

215 (61.1)

80.32 (11.83)

 

80.19 (7.66)

 

  High

46 (13.1)

78.21 (16.87)

0.564* *

78.44 (6.91)

0.111* *

  Low

91 (25.9)

80.54 (12.44)

 

81.59 (9.59)

 

History of illness in pregnancy

  Yes

16 (4.5)

79.14 (12.06)

0.556††

79.12 (7.50)

0.242††

  No

337 (95.5)

80.22 (12.92)

 

80.53 (8.26)

 

Number of Pregnancy

  1

162 (45.9)

79.52 (13.81)

 

80.14 (7.73)

 

  2

132 (37.4)

79.05 (12.54)

0.059* *

80.33 (8.19)

0.920* *

   ≥ 3

59 (16.7)

83.74 (9.15)

 

80.66 (9.22)

 

History of infertility

  Yes

19 (5.4)

74.15 (9.72)

0.044††

75.44 (5.36)

0.009††

  No

334 (94.6)

80.36 (12.85)

 

80.58 (8.19)

 
 

Mean (SDb)

r

P-value‡‡

r

P-value‡‡

Age

29.68 (5.86)

-0.032

0.558

-0.190

0.001

Duration of marriage

7.08 (5.02)

0.031

0.576

-0.21

0.001

Body mass index

27.94 (3.79)

-0.019

0.728

-0.032

0.560

  1. aN (%): Number (percent); bSD Standard Deviation; cOthers refer to Freelancer jobs; Score range of health literacy is between 0 to 100; Score range of empowerment is between 27 to 108; * *One-way ANOVA; †† Independent t-test; ‡‡ Pearson correlation test