Survey Questionnaire

The survey collected information on categorical independent variables, allowing for multiple selections where relevant, including gender, clinical degree, other relevant degrees, postgraduate training, technological background, earliest use of a computer and internet, telepsychiatry training, experience with telepsychiatry, encountering a technical issue, a priori skepticism, and working with special populations. We defined C-L psychiatry clinicians by asking respondents whether they work with medically ill patients, to be inclusive of both C-L psychiatrists and social workers, psychologists, and others who work in this field but for whom formal fellowship is not the standard. For those who indicated that they work specifically with medically ill populations, we collected an additional categorical item interrogating what type(s) of relationship(s) they have with the medical team(s) (multiple selections were allowed): consultative, collaborative, and/or embedded. Continuous independent variables were inpatient effort (%), general comfort with technology (“Please rate your comfort, where −5 is Extremely Uncomfortable, 0 is neutral, and +5 is Extremely Comfortable: I feel comfortable using technology in general,”) and clinician age (by decade).

Primary outcome variables collected were overall satisfaction with providing care via a telepsychiatric platform, hereafter “overall satisfaction,” feeling comfortable that the evaluation could be complete and preliminary recommendations could be made based on the tele-encounter, hereafter “completeness,” and whether patients spoke favorably about telepsychiatry in general, or heretofore, “patient satisfaction by proxy.” These were measured on respective Likert scales from −5 (never) to 5 (always). A secondary outcome of interest was a continuous variable asking how often the telepsychiatry session was accomplished only because of the help of other in-person staff such as nurses, physician assistants, residents, medical assistants, or other professionals, measured on a Likert scale from −5 (never) to 5 (always).

See Supplementary Material 1.