Table 1 Model fit indices of different latent class models based on scores from the Health Literacy Instrument for Adults (HELIA) and eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS).

From: Exploring health literacy categories among an Iranian adult sample: a latent class analysis

No of clusters

AIC

BIC

aBIC

X2

BLRT

LMRT

Entropy

Conditional probability

HELIA

 1 cluster

278,138.4

278,366.2

278,078.1

5.896207e + 19

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 

1

 2 clusters

222,620.1

223,082.6

222,491.8

6.384271e + 10

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.939

0.672/0.328

 3 clusters

207,674.8

208,372.1

207,478.6

8.714285e + 10

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.916

0.121/0.48/0.399

 4 clusters

202,613.9

203,545.8

202,349.6

8.438307e + 10

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.887

0.417/0.208/0.265/0.11

 5 clusters

198,995.7

200,162.4

198,663.5

2.754168e + 10

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.879

0.358/0.169/0.205/0.181/0.087

 6 clusters

197,022.6

198,423.9

196,622.3

2.520531e + 10

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.867

0.148/0.18/0.077/0.338/0.078/0.178

 7 clusters

195,621.1

197,257.2

195,152.9

2.000736e + 10

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.854

0.105/0.153/0.163/0.138/0.302/0.079/0.061

eHEALS

 1 cluster

69,225.78

69,281.38

69,215.55

3,961,674.0842

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

 

1

 2 clusters

48,353.38

48,471.53

48,325.16

6748.9356

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.915

0.737/0.263

 3 clusters

45,603.24

45,783.93

45,557.01

1930.7989

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.844

0.25/0.143/0.607

 4 clusters

44,954.95

45,198.19

44,890.72

786.8742

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.816

0.141/0.126/0.614/0.12

 5 clusters

44,757.39

45,063.18

44,675.16

547.3693

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.764

0.132/0.573/0.123/0.052/0.119

 6 clusters

44,675.51

45,043.84

44,575.28

427.660

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.771

0.043/0.047/0.131/0.098/0.100/0.58

 7 clusters

44,599.54

45,030.43

44,481.32

310.5297

 < 0.001

 < 0.001

0.759

0.084/0.099/0.124/0.055/0.569/0.035/0.034

  1. AIC Akaike Information Criterion; BIC Bayesian Information Criterion; aBICadjusted BIC; LMRT Lo-Mendell-Rubin adjusted likelihood ratio test; BLRT Bootstrapped likelihood ratio test.