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poor functional health literacy found independently associated poor selfassessed health poor understanding ones health condition management higher use health services given importance functional health literacy necessary assess overall status functional health literacy general public however literature review shows studies functional health literacy conducted among chinese population china study aimed classify chinese populations different functional health literacy clusters ascertain significant factors closely associated low functional health literacy provide implications health education medical research public health policy making hypothesized participants functional health literacy levels associated various demographic characteristics therefore designed foursection questionnaire including following information 1 age gender education 2 selfassessed disease knowledge 3 3 validated health literacy assessment tools ie aspects health literacy scale ehealth literacy scale 6item general health numeracy test 4 health beliefs selfconfidence measured multidimensional health locus control scales form b using randomized sampling recruited survey participants qilu hospital affiliated shandong university china questionnaire administered via wenjuanxing returned questionnaire valid question items included answered according predefined validation criterion valid data coded according predefined coding schemes likert scales different point score ranges finally used latent class analysis classify chinese populations clusters different functional health literacy identify significant factors closely associated low functional health literacy data 800 returned questionnaires proved valid according predefined validation criterion applying latent class analysis classified chinese populations low n292 365 moderatetoadequate n286 357 lowtomoderate n222 278 functional health literacy groups identified five factors associated low communicative health literacy 1 male gender aged 4049 years 2 lower educational attainment diploma 3 age 38 68 years 4 lower selfefficacy 5 belief staying healthy matter luck classified chinese populations 3 functional health literacy groups identified 5 factors associated low functional health literacy associated factors provide implications health education medical research health policy making