Implementation of social needs screening in primary care: a qualitative study using the health equity implementation framework.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Screening in primary care for unmet individual social needs (e.g., housing instability, food insecurity, unemployment, social isolation) is critical to addressing their deleterious effects on patients' health outcomes. To our knowledge, this is the first study to apply an implementation science framework to identify implementation factors and best practices for social needs screening and response.

Methods

Guided by the Health Equity Implementation Framework (HEIF), we collected qualitative data from clinicians and patients to evaluate barriers and facilitators to implementing the Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patients' Assets, Risks, and Experiences (PRAPARE), a standardized social needs screening and response protocol, in a federally qualified health c

SUBMITTER: Drake C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8445654 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature