Table 2.

Patient’s Attitudes and Perceptions of Social Needs’ Impact on Health and Health System’s Role for Addressing Social Needs, Adjusted Multivariable Logistic Regression Results

Outcome	Agreed social needs impact health (N = 1002 responses)	Agreed health system should ask about one or more social needs (N = 1062 responses)	Agreed health system should help with one or more social needs (N = 1074 responses)	Agreed health system should use social needs information (N = 1027 responses)	Agreed health system should use financial resources from its budget to address social needs (N = 960 responses)
	Adjusted odds ratios (95% confidence intervals)
No social need in the last year	Reference
Social needs in the last year	10.2 (5.4–19.2)***	3.7 (2.0–6.9)***	3.6 (2.2–5.8)***	1.2 (0.6–2.1)	1.6 (0.7–3.4)
Male	Reference
Female	1.0 (0.8–1.4)	1.4 (1.0–1.9)*	1.7 (1.3–2.2)***	1.7 (1.5–2.0)***	1.2 (0.8–1.6)
Under 40 years old	Reference
41–60 years old	1.1 (0.8–1.4)	1.0 (0.7–1.4)	1.2 (0.9–1.5)	1.2 (0.8–1.9)	1.5 (1.0–2.1)*
61 or more years old	0.7 (0.6–0.9)**	0.9 (0.6–1.4)	0.9 (0.6–1.3)	0.8 (0.5–1.2)	0.9 (0.6–1.6)
White, non-Hispanic	Reference
Hispanic	0.4 (0.3–0.5)***	0.9 (0.6–1.2)	1.3 (0.8–2.1)	2.3 (1.7–3.2)***	1.8 (1.4–2.3)***
Black, non-Hispanic	0.5 (0.3–0.9)*	1.4 (0.6–3.1)	1.3 (0.6–2.7)	1.8 (1.1–3.0)*	2.4 (1.5–3.7)***
Asian or Pacific Islander	0.4 (0.3–0.6)***	0.7 (0.6–0.9)**	0.6 (0.5–0.9)**	1.2 (0.5–2.8)	1.5 (1.1–2.0)**
Less than high school	Reference
High school graduate or GED	1.3 (0.7–2.7)	0.6 (0.4–1.0)	0.9 (0.7–1.2)	0.9 (0.5–1.6)	0.7 (0.5–1.2)
Some college or vocational school	1.3 (0.7–2.7)	1.0 (0.8–1.4)	0.9 (0.7–1.2)	0.7 (0.5–0.8)***	0.5 (0.4–.6)***
Completed college or Higher	2.9 (1.4–6.2)**	1.4 (1.0–2.1)	1.3 (0.9–1.8)	1.7 (1.4–3.1)*	0.9 (0.6–1.3)

Results shown are adjusted odds ratios from five separate multivariable logistic regression models, one for each of the outcomes listed at the top of each of the five right-most columns. Italicized font indicates statistical significance; *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001