A brief but comprehensive three-item social connectedness screener for use in social risk assessment tools.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The 2014 IOM report "Capturing Social and Behavioral Domains and Measures in Electronic Health Records" described three subdomains of social relationships that affect patient health and well-being. However, most social risk screeners currently assess only one subdomain, frequency of social connections. We are proposing a three-item Brief Social Connectedness (SC) screener that additionally assesses risks in social/emotional support and loneliness/social isolation subdomains.

Methods

For this cross-sectional study, we used data from a 2021 Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) social risk survey for 2244 members ages 35-85 years. The survey included three validated questions that covered the SC subdomains (frequencies of social contacts with people they care

SUBMITTER: Gordon NP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11259274 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature