Health literacy and patient participation in multidisciplinary tumor conferences in breast cancer care: a multilevel modeling approach

Table 3 Logistic multilevel hierarchical regression model with participation in the MTC as the dependent variable

Variables	Response trait	OR¹	95%-CI²
Highest education level achieved	No school education	1.93	0.74–5.31
	Lower secondary school education (Ref.)	1.00
	Intermediate secondary school education	1.74	0.75–3.97
	Entrance certificate for a university of applied sciences / University entrance certificate	1.12	0.54–2.34
Age	18–39	0.39	0.10–3.15
	40–49	0.69	0.30–1.56
	50–59 (Ref.)	1.00
	60–69	0.80	0.38–1.69
	≥70	0.93	0.42–2.08
Health literacy	Inadequate	0.31	0.11–0.93
	Problematic	0.85	0.47–1.56
	Sufficient (Ref.)	1.00
Living with partner	No	1.00
Living with partner	Yes	0.92	0.48–1.75
Native language	German	1.00
Native language	Other	1.89	0.49–7.23
Health insurance status	Statutory (Ref.)	1.00
	Private	0.74	0.26–2.12
	Statutory with additional private insurance	0.95	0.39–2.27
UICC stage	Stage 0 / I (Ref.)	1.00
	Stage II	0.83	0.45–1.53
	Stage III / IV	0.39	0.13–1.18
n patients		863
n breast cancer centers		43
ICC³ (ICC null model)		0.161 (0.149)