Eye Care in Federally Qualified Health Centers.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To assess changes in vision care availability at Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) between 2017 and 2021 and whether neighborhood-level demographic social risk factors (SRFs) associated with eye care services provided by FQHCs.

Design

Secondary data analysis of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) data and 2017-2021 American Community Survey (ACS).

Participants

Federally Qualified Health Centers.

Methods

Patient and neighborhood characteristics for SRFs were summarized. Differences in FQHCs providing and not providing vision care were compared via Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney tests for continuous measures and chi-square tests for categorical measures. Logistic regression models were used to test the associations between neighborhood

SUBMITTER: Woodward MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11416322 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature