Receipt of Social Needs Assistance and Health Center Patient Experience of Care.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Community health centers often screen for and address patients' unmet social needs. This study examines the degree to which community health center patients report receiving social needs assistance and compares measures of access and quality between patients who received assistance versus similar patients who did not.

Methods

A nationally representative sample of 4,699 nonelderly adults receiving care at community health centers from the 2014-2015 Health Resources and Services Administration Health Center Patient Survey was used, representing 12.6 million patients. The exposure-having "received social needs assistance"-was based on whether a patient received any community health center assistance accessing social programs (e.g., applying for government benefits)

SUBMITTER: Nguyen KH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7931986 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature