Health literacy as mediator between perception of illness and self-medication behaviour among outpatients in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: implication to primary healthcare nursing

Table 4 Factors affecting health literacy and self-medication scale scores

		BRIEF			SMS		CI		PI
	B	t	Sig.	B	t	Sig.		B	t	Sig.
Age	0.026	2.011	0.045
Completed college	2.040	3.461	0.001	2.424	1.881	0.061	NA
Did not complete college	Ref			Ref
Completed secondary	0.847	1.887	0.060	-0.449	-0.503	0.615
Elementary	0.577	0.965	0.335	1.328	1.016	0.310
Saudi	Ref					NA
Non-Saudi	1.194	3.490	0.001			NA
Blue-collar occupation	Ref			Ref
White-collar occupation	0.010	0.018	0.985	-0.420	-0.355	0.723

Regression Weights: (Group number 1 - Default model)
			Estimate	S.E.	C.R.	P
HL	<---	PI	− 0.026	0.024	-1.120	0.263
SMB	<---	PI	− 0.005	0.027	− 0.191	0.849
SMB	<---	HL	0.855	0.160	5.336	***

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