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Table 1 Some characteristics of participants (Turkey, 2019)

From: The adaptation of Turkish health literacy scale for literate Syrian adult refugees living in Turkey: a reliability–validity study

Characteristics

na

%

Sex (n = 1207)

Male

639

52.9

Female

569

47.1

Educational status (n = 1200)

Primary school

80

6.7

Secondary school

233

19.4

High school

297

24.8

University

590

49.2

Marital status (n = 1205)

Never married

386

32.0

Married and living with spouse

731

60.7

Widowed/divorced/separated

88

7.4

Working status in Turkey (n = 1206)

No

628

52.4

Yes

573

47.6

Economic status (n = 1205)

Very good

57

4.7

Good

278

23.1

Moderate

566

47.0

Below moderate

203

16.8

Poor

101

8.4

Speaking Turkish (n = 1202)

No

330

27.5

Moderate

493

41.0

Yes

379

31.5

Health insurance (n = 1186)

No

604

50.1

Yes

582

48.3

Having any chronic disease (n = 1203)

No

951

79.1

Yes

252

20.9

  1. aThere are various number of missings for every variable