Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jun 7, 2025
E-Patient Counseling Trial E-PACO: Computer Based Education versus Nurse Counseling for Patients to Prepare for Colonoscopy
Published on: August 1, 2019
Factors affecting U.S. adults' comfort level in sharing social needs information with healthcare providers
Nikhil A Ahuja1, Mahima Gulabani2, Nirmal A Ahuja3
1Department of Public Health, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, Slippery Rock, PA, USA.
Objective:
This study examines various factors affecting U.S. adults' comfort level in sharing information about their social needs with healthcare providers.
Methods:
We used data from the 2022 Health Information National Trends Survey (cycle 6), a nationally representative survey of U.S. adults (n = 6252). The outcome variables were participants' comfort level in sharing information about three social needs (food insecurity, transportation difficulties, and housing instability). Data were analyzed using weighted bivariate and multivariable logistic regression models.
Results:
Participants who faced discrimination when getting medical care based on race/ethnicity were more likely to be uncomfortable in sharing information about food insecurity, housing instability, and transportation difficulties. Those who trusted the healthcare system "a lot" were less likely to be uncomfortable in sharing information about food insecurity and transportation difficulties. Patient-Centered Communication (PCC) and social isolation scores significantly affected participants' comfort level in sharing information about social needs.
Conclusion:
Various factors such as trust, discrimination, social isolation, and PCC were found to be significantly affecting US adults' comfort level in sharing information about social needs.
Practice Implications:
Healthcare systems and policymakers should focus on developing approaches and strategies to enhance trust, reduce discrimination, improve patient-provider communication, and create supportive social environments.
Related Concept Videos
01:21Barriers to Effective Communication II
Cultural barriers:
Differences in values, beliefs, religion, knowledge, and tradition can significantly impact communication. Awareness of nonverbal cues is critical, especially when conversing with a patient from a different culture. What appears appropriate in one culture may be inappropriate in another.
Semantic barriers:
As a result of their tendency to use...
01:23Ethical Standards II
Nurses are entrusted with upholding various ethical principles and standards. Nurses forge solid therapeutic relationships using trust, empathy, autonomy, confidentiality, and professional competence.
Confidentiality is crucial, embodying respect for individual privacy...
01:21Health Literacy
01:15Techniques of therapeutic communication I: Active Listening, Sharing Observations, Validation, and Using Touch
Therapeutic communication is not the same as social interaction. Social interaction has no goal or purpose and consists of casual information sharing, whereas therapeutic communication has a plan or purpose for the conversation. Therapeutic...
01:27Nursing Ethical Principles II
Consider the following scenario, which illustrates how these principles are applied in the care of Mr. John, a fifty-year-old teacher diagnosed with metastatic liver cancer.
Initially, Mr. John's...
01:25Ethical Standards I
The Code of Ethics provisions outline the nurse's duty to the patient, the healthcare team, the profession, and society. The Code's fundamental principles include advocacy,...