Below we share multiple SIREN-relevant articles published since the last newsletter. For a full list, see the SIREN Evidence and Resource Library. As always, if you are aware of resources that you think should be added to the library, please send them our way.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Awareness / Screening
Using Factor Analysis to Streamline Social Screening for the Emergency Department Meeker MA, Bongiorno DM, Cullen D, Schiavoni KH, Samuels-Kalow M | Academic Emergency Medicine
Social Determinants of Health Screening Tool: Systematic Review and Delphi Study Parry E, Wilkie R, Warren K | BJGP Open
Digital Health Technologies for Screening and Identifying Unmet Social Needs: Scoping Review Sezgin E, Jackson DI, Boch S, et al. | Journal of Medical Internet Research
Implementation of Social Needs Screening and Intervention in Primary Care: A Systematic Review of Program-Level Determinants Chang E, Guzman I, Glowacki N, Khatib R | Annals of Internal Medicine Also see related commentary: Mind the Gaps: The Missing Links in Social Needs Screening Shaheen A
Optimizing the Community Resource Specialist to Address Social Needs in Primary Care: Results from a Pragmatic Quality Improvement Evaluation Lewis CC, Pullmann MD, Hsu C, et al. | BMC Primary Care
Providing Transportation Services to Address Health and Social Needs: Kaizen Health and Iowa Medicaid Managed Care Organizations Brykman K | Center for Health Care Strategies
Food Insecurity Interventions
Food Is Medicine is Complementary with SNAP & WIC: A Brief on Comprehensive Nutrition Supports for Medicaid Enrollees Bank A, Jantz K, Xie J, Rees E, Scott K | Medicaid Food Security Network
Healthy Food Voucher Programs: Global Evidence on Structure, Implementation, and Nutrition-Related Outcomes Lara-Arevalo J, Corvalan C, Pemjean I, Montes de Oca D, Ng SW, Taillie LS | Advances in Nutrition
Screening and Addressing Food Insecurity at Free Clinics: A Scoping Review Ramanathan G, Zak W, Munjwani D, Fisher R, Sarino EM, Scourboutakos MJ | Discover Public Health
Perinatal and Pediatric Interventions
Caregiver, Healthcare, and WIC Staff Needs for Promoting WIC Enrollment in Primary Care Stough CO, Smith JL, Buchanan B, et al. | Academic Pediatrics
Automating WIC Screening and Enrollment in Pediatric Primary Care Suarez L, Avery C, Montez K, Cholera R | The New England Journal of Medicine
Hardship and Hope: The Relationship Between Unconditional Prenatal and Infant Cash Transfers, Economic Stability, and Maternal Mental Health and Well-Being Hanna M, Shaefer HL, Finegood E, Agarwal S, Zamani-Hank Y, LaChance J | American Journal of Public Health
⭐ Relative to comparisons, mothers exposed to Rx Kids saw improvements in hardship, mental health, and well-being—notably, a 4.2-percentage-point reduction in the risk of eviction (P < .05) and a 14.0-percentage-point reduction in screening positive for postpartum depression (P < .05). Program exposure was associated with increased trust in institutions and feeling loved, hopeful, respected, and valued.
Unconditional Cash Transfers for Medicaid Eligible Parents of Preterm Infants: A Qualitative Study within a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Salazar EG, Bouchelle ZM, Nelin TD, Radack JK, Duncan AF | Academic Pediatrics
Strengthening Perinatal Services Through Social Care: Outcomes of a Quality Improvement Initiative for a Health Center-Based Perinatal Care Program Emery Tavernier RL, Rogers P, Shenkman M, et al. | Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health
Evaluating the Impact of a Pediatric Clinic-Based Food Pantry: A Qualitative Study Mass J, Anselin E | Clinical Pediatrics
Cultural and/or Linguistic Tailoring of Interventions
Community Health Worker Support for Hispanic and Latino Individuals Receiving Hemodialysis: The Navigate-Kidney Randomized Clinical Trial Cervantes L, Juarez-Colunga E, Powe NR, et al. | JAMA Internal Medicine
⭐ In this randomized clinical trial that included 139 patients at 5 dialysis centers in Denver, Colorado, from 2020 to 2022, a CHW intervention modestly reduced fluid accumulation between dialysis sessions compared to standard care. The intervention also led to fewer shortened dialysis sessions and greater improvement in patient activation.
Participant Experiences in a Kidney Failure Care Intervention in the Navigate-Kidney Study Rizzolo K, Ressalam J, Robledo K, et al. | JAMA Network Open
A Culturally and Linguistically Tailored Intervention to Improve Diabetes-Related Outcomes in Chinese Americans with Type 2 Diabetes: Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial Liu J, Cao J, Shi Y, et al. | JMIR mHealth and uHealth
Evaluation of Language Accessibility of Community Resources to Address Pediatric Social Needs in Two Large U.S. Cities Patel K, Vazquez B, Wingfield E, et al.| Academic Pediatrics
Payment policy
Experiences of Maryland Primary Care Practices in Addressing Social Needs Through a Novel Value-Based Payment Gruber E, Grisham R, Arem H, et al. | Health Services Research
Commentaries and Blogs
How Should Clinical Teams Integrate Findings from Social Needs Screenings into Children's Care Plans? Menko SG, Luke MJ, Vasan A | AMA Journal of Ethics
Integrated Clinical-Social Care and Boundaries of Health Care Guilamo-Ramos V, Thimm-Kaiser M, Benzekri A, Kinsley KH |JAMA Health Forum
MAHA’s Low-Hanging Fruit: Enabling Health Systems to Deploy Food as Medicine Landauer R, Falcone AJ | Health Affairs Forefront
What Else We're Reading
Manifestations of Structural Racism and Inequities in Cardiovascular Health Across US Neighborhoods Lawrence WR, Hong HG, & Williams F | JAMA Health Forum
Scientists Had to Change More Than 700 Grant Titles to Receive NIH Funding. Health Disparities Researchers Fear What’s Next Oza A | STAT+
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