Comfort With Sharing Food Insecurity Risk for Clinical Care Among Individuals With and Without a Cancer History: Findings From a National Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Food insecurity negatively affects timely access to care, treatment adherence, quality of life, and survival among cancer survivors. There is limited knowledge about cancer survivors' comfort with sharing food insecurity risk for clinical care on a national scale. This study aims to assess comfort with sharing food insecurity risk for clinical care among adults with and without a cancer history and to identify factors that may be associated with comfort for sharing food insecurity risk.

Methods

Data were obtained from the National Cancer Institute's Health Information National Trends Survey 6, which was administered from March 7, 2022, to November 8, 2022. Descriptive statistics were calculated to describe the study sample, and sample characteristics were compar

SUBMITTER: Benyahia SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12405682 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature