Zahnd Whitney E, Scaife Steven L, Francis Mark L
Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, IL 62794-9636, USA.
Am J Health Behav. 2009 Sep-Oct;33(5):550-7. doi: 10.5993/ajhb.33.5.8.
To determine whether health literacy is lower in rural populations.
We analyzed health, prose, document, and quantitative literacy from the National Assessment of Adult Literacy study. Metropolitan Statistical Area designated participants as rural or urban.
Rural populations had lower literacy levels for all literacy types (P<0.001 for each). After adjusting for known confounders, there was no longer a difference in health or prose literacy (P>0.05). However, rural populations had higher document (P=0.04) and quantitative (P=0.01) literacy.
Health literacy is lower in the rural population although this difference is explained by known confounders.
确定农村人口的健康素养是否较低。
我们分析了来自成人识字率全国评估研究的健康、散文、文档和定量素养。大都市统计区将参与者指定为农村或城市人口。
农村人口在所有识字类型方面的识字水平较低（每种类型P<0.001）。在对已知混杂因素进行调整后，健康或散文素养不再存在差异（P>0.05）。然而，农村人口的文档（P=0.04）和定量（P=0.01）素养较高。
农村人口的健康素养较低，尽管这种差异可由已知混杂因素解释。
