Table 4.
Patient and practice characteristics associated with expressing social need in domains concordant and discordant with social risk factors on health-related social needs (HRSN) screening
| Social Need in Concordant Domain | Social Need in Discordant Domain | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PR | CI | P-value | PR | CI | P-value | |
| Age | ||||||
| Adult (≥ 19 years) | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Pediatric (0–18 years) | 0.9 | 0.9–1.0 | 0.02 | 1.0 | 0.9–1.1 | 0.66 |
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Female | 1.1 | 1.0–1.2 | 0.01 | 1.0 | 0.9–1.1 | 0.64 |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||||
| NH White | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| NH Black | 1.5 | 1.4–1.6 | < 0.001 | 1.4 | 1.2–1.6 | < 0.001 |
| Hispanic | 1.3 | 1.2–1.4 | < 0.001 | 1.2 | 1.0–1.4 | 0.09 |
| NH other race | 1.3 | 1.2–1.4 | < 0.001 | 1.2 | 0.9–1.4 | 0.17 |
| Primary language | ||||||
| English | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Spanish | 1.0 | 1.0–1.1 | 0.40 | 1.6 | 1.3–1.9 | < 0.001 |
| Other language | 1.0 | 0.9–1.1 | 0.97 | 1.5 | 1.2–1.8 | 0.001 |
| Number of social risks | ||||||
| < 3 social risks | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| ≥ 3 social risks | 3.0 | 2.8–3.1 | < 0.001 | 0.6 | 0.5–0.7 | < 0.001 |
| Practice level LEP | ||||||
| Quartile 1 practice LEP | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Quartile 2 practice LEP | 1.2 | 1.1–1.4 | 0.002 | 1.3 | 1.0–1.7 | 0.09 |
| Quartile 3 practice LEP | 1.3 | 1.2–1.5 | < 0.001 | 1.3 | 1.0–1.7 | 0.04 |
| Quartile 4 practice LEP | 1.4 | 1.3–1.6 | < 0.001 | 1.4 | 1.1–1.8 | 0.006 |
Abbreviations: CI Confidence interval, LEP Limited English proficiency, NH Non-Hispanic, PR Prevalence ratio