Social Risk and Clinical Outcomes Among Adults With Type 2 Diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

No clear process exists for categorizing social risks in a way that informs effective social risk screening and intervention development.

Objective

To investigate social risk profiles and associations of those profiles with clinical outcomes in adults with diabetes using latent profile analysis.

Design, setting, and participants

For this cross-sectional study, a latent profile analysis was conducted using data for adults with type 2 diabetes collected at 2 primary care clinics in the Southeastern US from 2013 to 2014. Data were analyzed from November to December 2023.

Main outcomes and measures

Participants completed validated questionnaires for 26 social risk factors within 5 domains of social determinants of health: socioeconomic, neighborhood, edu

SUBMITTER: Walker RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11362860 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature