Table 2.

Estimated Associations of Resident and Residency Program Characteristics with Self-Reported Preparedness (N=954)

Characteristic	Beta-coefficient	95% CI	p
Attitude scalea,b	0.57	0.49 to 0.64	<0.001
Knowledge score (limited)b,c	−0.03	−0.11 to 0.06	0.57
Knowledge score (overall)b,d	−0.01	−0.08 to 0.05	0.73
Serves a large number of racial/ethnic minority patientsb	0.90	0.56 to 1.24	<0.001
Serves a large number of patients with a low-socioeconomic statusb	0.74	0.37 to 1.10	<0.001
Postgraduate level
PGY-1	Reference
PGY-2	0.16	0.02 to 0.31	0.03
PGY-3	0.18	0.05 to 0.32	0.01
Residency program type
Community	Reference
University	−0.15	−0.28 to −0.02	0.03
Military	0.73	−0.17 to 1.64	0.11
Region of United States
East	Reference
Mid-West	−0.05	−0.10 to 0.21	0.49
South	−0.06	−0.23 to 0.10	0.46
West	−0.17	−0.36 to 0.01	0.06
Urban vs. nonurban location
Nonurban	Reference
Urban	0.06	−0.19 to 0.31	0.63

Self-preparedness scale consisted of five validated questions that were grouped into a scale.

^aThe attitude scale consisted of five validated questions that were grouped into a scale.

^bAll continuous variables were rescaled by dividing by 100 for ease of interpretation purposes.

^cKnowledge score for the comprehension pretest questions only.

^dKnowledge score for overall pretest questions.