Table 2.

Frequency of Domain-Specific Counseling and Association with Presence of a Designated Space for Individual Domains of Care in Discharge Instructions (N = 317)

Domain	Frequent Domain-Specific Counseling, %a
	Overall	Designated Space b
		Yes	No
Diagnosis	73.8	78.9***	52.5
Medications
Name	97.5	97.4	100
Reason	90.2	93.6	88.5
Dose	82	81.7	88.2
Frequency	89.9	89.9	89.5
Duration	94.3	95	88.6
Side effects	42.6	73.1**	39.9
Appointments
Physician name or	95.6	96	86.7
specialty	79.5	79.5	80
Timing	81.7	87.7*	77.5
Reason
Return precautions
Symptoms	95.9	97.4*	91.5
Action to take	91.5	98***	79.8
Restrictions
Diet	85.2	86.6	77.6
Activity	80.1	83.7**	65
Bathing	62.1	74.1**	55.2
Return to school	65	81.2***	53.3

^aResident report of frequent counseling (often, usually, and always provide counseling on a 6-point Likert scale) for an individual domain in response to “How often do you typically provide information to parents about the following items at discharge?”

^bResident response to “Is there an area in your written discharge instructions template specifically designated for you to provide information about the following items (i.e., not an area for general/additional instructions) for individual domains? Columns represent frequent counseling in a domain when a designated space is present (yes) or not present (no), compared using Fisher's exact test/Chi-squared tests.

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01;

^***p < .001