National assessment of obstetrics and gynecology and family medicine residents’ experiences with CenteringPregnancy group prenatal care

Table 2 CenteringPregnancy group prenatal care measures among U.S. Family Medicine (N = 212) and OB/GYN (N = 176) residents responding to a survey between 2017 to 2019

	Type of residency
	Overall	FM		OB/GYN			p value
	N = 388	N = 212		N = 176
*Predictors*
Level of engagement (median, range)	1	0–6	1	0–6	1	0–6	0.293^d
Types of engagement (n, %)
Continuing education	46	11.86	28	13.21	18	10.23	0.366^a
Trainings held at residency	197	50.77	119	56.13	78	44.32	0.020^a
Trainings held at CHI	32	8.25	17	8.02	15	8.52	0.857^a
Media attention	76	19.59	27	12.74	49	27.84	< 0.001^a
Journal articles & scholarly literature	84	21.65	38	17.92	46	26.14	0.051^a
Classroom and formal coursework	80	20.62	45	19.89	35	21.23	0.745^a
Others	34	8.76	17	8.02	17	9.66	0.569^a
Hours of exposure (n, %)
< 5 h	147	37.89	81	38.21	66	37.50	0.115^a
5–15 h	103	26.55	49	23.11	54	30.68
> 15 h	123	31.70	76	35.85	47	26.70
Knowledge (n, %)
Haven't heard/ don’t know about it	19	4.90	12	5.66	7	3.98	0.60^b
Support group/education class	28	7.22	16	7.55	12	6.82
Group based comprehensive prenatal care*	340	87.63	184	86.79	156	88.64
Familiarity (median, range)
Not familiar	53	13.66	31	14.62	22	12.50	0.736^a
Somewhat familiar	95	24.48	52	24.53	43	24.43
Familiar	100	25.77	49	23.11	51	28.98
Very familiar	138	35.57	79	37.26	59	33.52
Level of support (median, range)	23	12–44	23	12–41	23	13–44	0.767^d
Anticipated barriers (mean, S.D.)	24.96	4.87	25.07	4.86	24.83	4.90	0.316^c
*Outcome*
Intention to participate (n, %)
Agree	260	67.01	155	73.11	105	59.66	< 0.001^a
Intention to establish (n, %)
Agree	201	51.80	115	52.25	86	48.86	0.025^a

Intention to participate as a group facilitator in CenteringPregnancy (CP) in future practice and intention to talk to decision makers about establishing CP were scored 0 (did not agree) or 1 (agreed). Types of exposure was scored 0 – 6 with higher score corresponding to a higher exposure to continuing education through conferences or in-service training off-site, trainings held at the residency center, trainings held at the CenteringHealthcare Institute (CHI), classroom study and formal coursework, media attention (newspapers, radio, tv, social media, etc.), journal article or scholarly literature, or other source
S.D Standard Deviation
^*The correct answer for the definition of CP
^aChi-square test
^bFisher's exact test
^cTwo-sample t-test
^dnonparametric Mann–Whitney tests

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