Fig 1.
Moderated medication model of health literacy on self-care through multiple mediators moderated by age.
Table 1.
Characteristics of participants (N = 214).
Table 2.
Correlations among the main variables.
Table 3.
Mediating effects between health literacy and self-care with education as covariate (N = 214).
Table 4.
Regression coefficient and conditional effect of age (young adults <40 and midlife adults ≥40) with education as covariate.
Fig 2.
The interactions between health literacy and age on motivation, self-efficacy, and self-care with education as covariates.