Table 1.

Demographics of telefamilies subjects

	Control	Telephone	Video	P value*
Data obtained from medical recorda
Gender
Male (female)	31 (24)	33 (21)	26 (28)	0.4085
Age at start of intervention, mean (SD)	7.1 (4.3)	7.0 (3.9)	7.6 (4.3)	0.7265
2–5 years	23	23	23
6–12 years	24	23	22
13–15 years	8	8	9
Primary insurance				0.3630
Private	31	30	24
Public	23	24	30
Uninsured/self pay	1	0	0
Condition complexityb				1.0000
Single complex chronic condition	7	7	7
Multiple complex chronic conditions	48	47	47
Neurologic impairment				0.7003
Yes (no)	47 (8)	46 (8)	43 (11)
Need for life-sustaining technology assistanceb
Yes (no)	25 (30)	22 (32)	29 (25)	0.4109
Data obtained from baseline surveyc
Race				0.0871
White	30	33	35
Black or African American	2	8	10
Asian	4	1	3
Multiracial	1	8	4
Ethnic background				0.9066
Hispanic (non-Hispanic)	4 (33)	7 (43)	8 (44)
Parent report of health problem severity				0.0280
Minor	2	8	9
Moderate	16	26	23
Severe	14	16	20
Don’t know	5	0	0
Parent report of health care needs stability				0.9476
Change all the time	11	17	16
Change once in a while	15	20	20
Are usually stable	10	13	14
Don’t know	1	0	2

^*P values are from Fisher’s exact tests for categorical variables and ANOVA for age

^aBased on information obtained from subject electronic medical record (control = 55, telephone = 54, video = 54)

^bCategorized using the framework reported by Berry et al. [53] and Cohen et al. [11]

^cBased on information obtained from completed baseline survey (control = 37, telephone = 50, video = 52)