Validation of a two-item short form of the perceived health competence scale.

J Patient Rep Outcomes · 2025 · PMC12618744 · PMID 41239089

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.072so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

No statistically significant differences were found across education or income categories ( p = 0.457 and p = 0.538, respectively), and differences by sex approached but did not reach statistical significance (female: 4.07 vs. male: 3.93, p = 0.072).

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