Health literacy level in a various nephrology population from Québec: predialysis clinic, in-centre hemodialysis and home dialysis; a transversal monocentric observational study

Table 4 Results of multivariate linear regressions showing the association between the scores on the nine health literacy domains of the HLQ of the pre dialysis, PD and HHD patients compared to ICHD patients

Parameters	Predialysis clinicn = 152		Peritoneal dialysisn = 38		Home hemodialysisn = 16
Parameters	Coefficient estimate	P value	Coefficient estimate	P value	Coefficient estimate	P value
Domain 1	0.03	0.55	0.28	0.002	0.35	0.01
Domain 2	0.01	0.82	0.11	0.22	0.33	0.02
Domain 3	−0.07	0.20	0.01	0.87	0.12	0.30
Domain 4	−0.02	0.71	0.14	0.12	0.15	0.23
Domain 5	0.20	< 0.001	−0.04	0.62	0.07	0.56
Domain 6	0.02	0.75	0.14	0.20	0.19	0.25
Domain 7	0.05	0.53	0.05	0.65	0.07	0.70
Domain 8	0.06	0.46	−0.06	0.60	0.14	0.41
Domain 9	−0.17	0.02	0.10	0.39	0.18	0.30

Multivariate linear regressions adjusted on age, gender, renal disease, diabetes, hypertension, demographic characteristics, education status, active employment status, marital status
HLQ health literacy questionnaire, PD peritoneal dialysis, HHD home hemodialysis, ICHD in centre hemodialysis

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