Table 1 Main participants’ characteristics (n = 2342)
Sociodemographic and medical history | n | % | |
Age | |||
18–40 | 777 | 33.2 | |
41–60 | 1111 | 47.4 | |
61–83 | 454 | 19.4 | |
Female Gender | 2258 | 96.4 | |
French maternal language | 2269 | 97 .8 | |
Education level | |||
Primary/secondary | 279 | 11.9 | |
≤ Three-years higher education | 958 | 40.9 | |
> Three-years higher education | 1105 | 47.2 | |
Deprivation (EPICES Index) | 409 | 18.1 | |
Cancer history | 1073 | 45.8 | |
Difficulties in asking physicians questions | |||
Always (1) | 37 | 1.6 | |
Often (2) | 229 | 9.8 | |
Sometimes (3) | 735 | 31.4 | |
Rarely (4) | 669 | 28.6 | |
Never (5) | 632 | 27 | |
Missing values | 40 | 1.7 | |
Health literacy | Possible range | Mean | SD |
FCCHL | 14–70 | 55.58 | 7.06 |
Functional dimension | 5–25 | 18.95 | 4.18 |
Communicative dimension | 5–25 | 20.66 | 3.01 |
Critical dimension | 4–20 | 15.96 | 3.08 |