Patient-Reported Social Determinants of Health in Patients With Heart Failure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social determinants of health (SDOH) complicate medical care and affect clinical outcomes, but the lack of a reliable structured interview for medical patients has impeded clinical assessment and research on SDOH. We assessed the reliability and validity of a newly developed SDOH Patient Interview Form and investigated SDOH in patients with heart failure.

Methods

The SDOH Patient Interview Form was administered to recently hospitalized patients with heart failure between January 2021 and April 2024. The interviews were recorded, and 50 were randomly selected for the interrater reliability analysis.

Results

The sample included 367 participants (mean age, 61.2±12.1 years; 42.5% women; 57.7% minorities). The interrater reliability of SDOH Patient Interview For

SUBMITTER: Freedland KE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12184543 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature