Table 4.

Family medicine graduate medical residents’ characteristics and perspectives on teach-back during remote visits, all sites (including both pre- and postintervention surveys), between October 2021 and April 2022.

Variable			Intervention site								Control site
			Pre (n=12), n (%)		Post (n=11), n (%)		P value			Pre (n=8), n (%)			Post (n=6), n (%)	P value
Gender								.48							.04
	Man	5 (42)		3 (27)					4 (50)			0 (0)
	Woman	7 (58)		7 (64)					4 (50)			6 (100)
Year of residency								.83							.39
	PGYa 1	3 (25)		2 (18)					3 (38)			1 (17)
	PGY 2	5 (42)		4 (36)					5 (63)			4 (67)
	PGY 3	4 (33)		5 (46)					0 (0)			1 (17)
Frequency of teach-back during remote visits								.68							.56
	Do not do it now, but plan in future	2 (17)		3 (27)					2 (25)			2 (33)
	25% of all remote encounters	6 (50)		3 (27)					1 (12)			1 (17)
	50% of all remote encounters	3 (25)		3 (27)					3 (38)			2 (33)
	75% of all remote encounters	1 (8)		2 (18)					2 (25)			0 (0)
	100% of all remote encounters	0 (0)		0 (0)					0 (0)			1 (17)
Teach-back improves quality of care								.95							N/Ab
	Maybe	1 (8)		1 (9)					0 (0)			0 (0)
	Yes	11 (92)		10 (91)					8 (100)			6 (100)
Should teach back be mandatory?								.049							.33
	No	5 (42)		9 (82)					6 (75)			3 (50)
	Yes	7 (58)		2 (18)					2 (25)			3 (50)
Continuing education on teach-back?								.28							.37
	No	2 (17)		4 (36)					1 (12)			0 (0)
	Yes	10 (83)		7 (64)					7 (88)			6 (100)
Case scenario: least effective question to assess understanding								.11							.46
	Correct (Do you have any questions?)	6 (50)		9 (82)					4 (50)			3 (50)
	Incorrect (Other teach-back statements)	6 (50)		2 (18)					4 (50)			3 (50)

^aPGY: Postgraduate year.

^bNot applicable.