Successful Enrollment in Text4Baby More Likely With Higher Health Literacy

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Table 1. Demographics and their association with health literacy among participants responding to the survey assessing Text4Baby self-enrollment

			Newest Vital Sign score ^a
	Overall (N = 333)		0–1 n = 67 (21%)	2–3 n = 165 (48%)	4–6 n = 101 (31%)
	N ^b	Weighted percentage ^c or M (95% CI)	Weighted percentage or M (95% CI)	Weighted percentage or M (95% CI)	Weighted percentage or M (95% CI)	p
Age in years	329	26.4 (26.0, 26.7)	26.3 (25.1, 27.4)	25.5 (25.1, 25.9)	27.8 (27.3, 28.4)	.0009
Education						<.0001
Less than high school	38	11	24	11	2
High school or vocational training	151	47	61	52	29
College and above	144	43	15	38	69
Race/ethnicity						.4535
Black/African American, non-Hispanic	302	91	88	94	89
Other	230	9	12	6	11
Marital status						.0816
Single or never married	196	60	66	64	50
Living with a partner or married	113	31	29	30	33
Separated, divorced, or widowed	24	9	5	6	17
Employment status						.0282
Employed	143	43	28	43	54
Unemployed	153	46	64	47	33
Student	36	11	8	10	13
Household income						.0002
Less than $10,000	174	56	71	65	34
$10,001 to $20,000	77	24	18	19	37
More than $20,000	60	19	12	16	29
Number of people in household supported by this income						.8991
1–3 people	199	61	58	62	61
4–5 people	102	30	35	29	29
More than 5 people	32	9	7	10	10

Table 2. Status of self-enrollment stratified by Newest Vital Sign score

	n	Weighted percentage ^b (95% CI)
Self-enrollment ^a attempted	315	52 (49, 55)
Total
Newest Vital Sign score
0–1 (21%)	64	50 (42, 57)
2–3 (48%)	154	50 (46, 54)
4–6 (31%)	97	56 (50, 61)
		p = .7005
Attempted and succeeded
Total	158	68 (66, 70)
Newest Vital Sign score
0–1 (20%)	31	48 (41, 55)
2–3 (46%)	73	69 (66, 73)
4–6 (34%)	54	78 (72, 83)
		p = .0120