Identifying Nutrition Risk in a Charitable Pharmacy Population.
J Health Care Poor Underserved
; 32(3): 1493-1513, 2021.
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em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-34421045
While prior research has shown that food insecurity and malnutrition worsen health outcomes and increase health care costs, nutrition risk is rarely assessed in the community setting. Tools exist to screen for food insecurity and malnutrition individually, but none screen for both. This study aimed to implement a dual-purpose screening tool to identify nutrition risk in a community setting, to characterize nutrition risk in a charitable pharmacy population, and to identify patients who screen positive for nutrition risk and connect them to community nutrition resources. Of the 221 patients screened during their initial and annual qualification interview at the Charitable Pharmacy of Central Ohio, 140 (63%) screened positive for nutrition risk. There were 84 (38%) patients positive for food insecurity, 14 (6%) positive for malnutrition risk, and 42 (19%) positive for both. Patients at nutrition risk were referred to nutrition resources, including food pantries, home-delivered meals, and SNAP.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Farmácias
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Farmácia
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Assistência Farmacêutica
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Desnutrição
Tipo de estudo:
Etiology_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2021
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Article