Patient Perspectives on Addressing Social Needs in Primary Care Using a Screening and Resource Referral Intervention.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Interest is growing in interventions to address social needs in clinical settings. However, little is known about patients' perceptions and experiences with these interventions.

Objective

To evaluate patients' experiences and patient-reported outcomes of a primary care-based intervention to help patients connect with community resources using trained volunteer advocates.

Design

Qualitative telephone interviews with patients who had worked with the volunteer advocates. Sample and recruitment targets were equally distributed between patients who had at least one reported success in meeting an identified need and those who had no reported needs met, based on the database used to document patient encounters.

Participants

One hundred two patients.

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SUBMITTER: Hsu C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7018904 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature