Trial reportJournal of general internal medicine2025
Screening and Referral for Social Needs Among Veterans: A Randomized Controlled Trial.
Trial report in Journal of general internal medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04977583 (The Effect of Screening and Referral for Social Determinants of Health on Veterans' Outcomes), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.
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The Effect of Screening and Referral for Social Determinants of Health on Veterans' Outcomes
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- A partner-informed approach to prioritizing social risks for research in a learning health system.Learning health systems · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundHealthcare-based social need screening and referral (S&R) among adult populations has produced equivocal results regarding social need resource connection.
objectiveAssess the efficacy of S&R on resource connection (primary outcome) and unmet need reduction (secondary outcome).
designIntention-to-treat randomized controlled trial. Analyses adjusted for demographics (e.g., age, race), comorbidity (Elixhauser), and VA priority group (PG).
participantsVeterans with and at-risk for cardiovascular disease and one of more (hereafter " ≥ 1") social needs receiving healthcare at one of three Veterans Healthcare Administration (VHA) medical facilities.
interventionStudy arms represented referral strategies of varying intensity. Arm 1 (control) received generic resource information; Arm 2 (low intensity) received generic and tailored resource information; Arm 3 (high intensity) received all the above plus social work navigation assistance. MAIN MEASURES: Post index surveys at 2-months assessed resource connection (connection to ≥ 1 new resources) and 6-months assessed need reduction (≥ 1 needs at the index screen no longer identified). KEY
resultsA total of 479 Veterans were randomized: 50% were minoritized Veterans, mean age was 64, and 91% were male. Arm 3 was associated with greater resource connection but differences across study arms were not statistically significant. For example, compared to the control arm, participants in Arm 3 had higher but non-statistically significant odds of connecting to ≥ 1 resources (OR = 1.60, CI [.96, 2.67]).
conclusionsAmong VHA-enrolled Veterans, a high-intensity S&R intervention was associated with a non-statistically significant increase in connection to social need resources. Further study needed to establish S&R efficacy.
trial registrationNCT04977583.
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