Table 1.
Characteristics of patients by randomized study group in the analytic sample (N=254)
| Overall | Standard discharge (n=127) |
Teach-back (n=127) |
Χ2 | P value |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | |||
| Race | 6.21 | 0.01 | |||
| White/Other | 31 (12.2) | 9 (7.1) | 22 (17.3) | ||
| Black | 223 (87.8) | 118 (92.9) | 105 (82.7) | ||
| Gender | 0.02 | 0.90 | |||
| Male | 103 (40.6) | 52 (40.9) | 51 (40.2) | ||
| Female | 151 (59.5) | 75 (59.1) | 76 (59.8) | ||
| Education | 1.98 | 0.37 | |||
| Less than high school | 94 (37.0) | 50 (39.4) | 44 (34.7) | ||
| High school diploma | 111 (43.7) | 50 (39.4) | 61 (48.0) | ||
| Some college or higher | 49 (19.3) | 27 (21.3) | 22 (17.3) | ||
| Age | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | t | |
| 35.4 (13.0) | 34.7 (12.8) | 36.0 (13.2) | −0.82 | 0.42 |