Unmet Social Needs Study
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Official title
The Effect of Screening and Referral for Social Determinants of Health on Veterans' Outcomes
Brief summary
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The impacts of unmet social needs, such as homelessness, inconsistent access to food, and exposure to violence on health are well-established, especially for cardiovascular disease. A limited but growing body of evidence suggests that screening for and addressing these needs - also referred as social determinants of health -- in clinic settings helps to connect patients to resources to address unmet needs and has the potential to improve health outcomes. Veterans carry a high burden of unmet needs. At present, VA systematically screens for only two unmet needs; homelessness and food insecurity. The investigators propose to assess the efficacy of systematically screening Veterans for nine unmet needs (i.e., housing, food insecurity, utility insecurity, transportation, legal problems, employment, safety, stress, and social isolation), and compare the effect of referral mechanisms of varying intensity on Veterans' connection to resources, reduction of unmet needs, treatment adherence, reduced preventable hospitalizations, and clinical outcomes.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT04977583
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 479 participants
Conditions and interventions
Interventions
- Unmet Need Screening Behavioral
- Unmet Need Referral - Resource Sheet Behavioral
- Unmet Need Referral Assistance Behavioral
Behavioral
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- Not listed
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Apr 28, 2022
- Primary completion
- Jun 8, 2023
- Completion
- Dec 14, 2023
- Last update posted
- Apr 29, 2025
2022 – 2023
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 3
- U.S. states
- 3
- U.S. cities
- 3
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VA Boston Healthcare System Jamaica Plain Campus, Jamaica Plain, MA | Boston | Massachusetts | 02130-4817 | — |
| Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA | Philadelphia | Pennsylvania | 19104-4551 | — |
| Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC | Charleston | South Carolina | 29401-5703 | — |
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