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Table 3 Correlations between health literacy, years of education, aural and reading literacy, numeracy, and WAIS-IV digit symbol coding (means) and verbal fluency (z-score) in people with schizophrenia

From: Associations between health literacy, cognitive function and general literacy in people with schizophrenia attending community mental health clinics in Australia

 

Correlation with years education (n = 49)

Correlation with S-TOFHLA (HL) (n = 43)

Test

Means (SD)

Correlation coefficient

P value

Correlation coefficient

P value

WJ4 (aural literacy)

0.933 (0.252)

0.247

0.088

0.511

0.0005

WJ9 (reading)

0.650 (0.481)

0.180

0.215

0.508

0.0005

WAIS IV-DSC

7.200 (2.057)

-0.011

0.938

0.381

0.012

WAIS IV-VF

-0.460 (1.265)

0.049

0.737

0.240

0.122

Lipkus (numeracy)

0.404 (0.495)

0.391

0.006

0.528

0.0003