Testing a single item screener to support family doctors in identifying patients with limited health literacy: convergent validity of the SILS and the HLS-EU-Q16

Table 3 Stepwise linear regression to predict the HLS-EU-Q16 score

Model summary	R²	R² change
Step 1^a	0.08
Step 2	0.26	0.18
Independent variables (Full model, step 2)	ß	p
Age	0.783	ns
Sex	0.101	ns
Education level	0.447	≤ 0.025
Migration background	0.212	ns
Employment status	0.852	≤ 0.025
Chronic diseases^b	0.339	ns
SILS	1.425	≤ 0.001

^aStep 1: Socio-demographic variables and chronic diseases entered as a block, Step 2: SILS entered
^bThe variable ‘chronic diseases’ was entered as dichotomous variable (0 vs. 1 or more). All other variables were entered as displayed in Table 2

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